Onlykashmir.in News Desk
India and Singapore concluded a highly productive India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable in Singapore on Thursday, bringing together senior ministers from both governments to deepen cooperation across a wide span of strategic sectors.
The Indian delegation was led by External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar and included Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State Jitin Prasada, underscoring the priority New Delhi has placed on the bilateral relationship with Singapore, a key economic and strategic partner in Southeast Asia.
Discussions at the roundtable centred on strengthening cooperation in advanced manufacturing and semiconductors, two sectors India has been aggressively courting investment in as it seeks to build out domestic capacity and reduce reliance on other global supply hubs. Talks also covered connectivity, digital and fintech collaboration, skilling initiatives, and the green economy, including clean energy, areas where both countries have signalled growing appetite for joint projects and knowledge-sharing.
The Ministerial Roundtable also engaged with participants of the India-Singapore Business Roundtable, which ran alongside the ministerial talks, reinforcing what officials described as a shared commitment to shaping a contemporary, forward-looking partnership between the two nations. The overlap between the government-level and business-level discussions is intended to translate policy commitments more quickly into concrete commercial outcomes.
The roundtable comes amid a broader push by India to deepen economic ties with Singapore, long one of the largest sources of foreign direct investment into the Indian economy and a hub through which many Indian firms access Southeast Asian markets. With semiconductors and advanced manufacturing increasingly central to India’s industrial strategy, officials on both sides are likely to view Thursday’s talks as laying groundwork for follow-up agreements in the coming months.
