Districts as Export Hub’ Initiative: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 28 January 2023

Districts as Export Hub’ Initiative

✅DEH aims to convert each district into an export hub for which Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry through DGFT is engaging with State / UT Governments.

✅As part of this initiative, an institutional mechanism is being set up in each District in the form of DEPCs that may be headed by the District Magistrate/Collector/Deputy Collector/District Development Officer of the District and various other stakeholders as its members.

✅The primary function of the DEPC will be to prepare and act on DEAP in collaboration with all the relevant stakeholders from the center, State and the District level.

✅DEAP will include clear identification of products (goods and services) with export potential in the District.

It may include:

∆Institutional/other responsibilities

Specifics of policy, regulatory and operational reform, and infrastructure/utilities/logistics interventions

∆Import export formalities

Identification of bottlenecks/Issues in  Geographical Identification production, registration, marketing and its exports.