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UK India Business Council: Advocating Business Success in 2021

This report outlines the breadth of advocacy work that the UKIBC has delivered in the last twelve months and sets out our objectives and plans for 2021. The UK and India are important economic partners, and the mutually beneficial relationship is only growing stronger. India is projected to become the world’s third largest economy by […]

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India’s Import Embargo on Defence Equipment

In August 2020, the Department of Military Affairs in the Indian Ministry of Defence published a list of equipment which, in a phased manner, from 2020 onwards, cannot be imported into India. Part of the Government of India’s Atmanirbhar Bharat, or ‘Self-Reliant India’ response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the embargo’s purpose is to increase local […]

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UKIBC’S 6th Annual Doing Business in India Report: The UK Perspective

This is the UK India Business Council’s sixth annual ‘Doing Business in India’ Report, in which we outline the point of view of UK businesses and higher education institutions on India’s business environment and the ease of doing business. This report details why companies want to do business in India, the challenges they face in […]

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Opportunities in the Indian Aerospace and Defence Industry

UK India Business Council, with our partners KPMG, have come together to produce this significant report on opportunities in the Indian Aerospace and Defence Industry. India has one of the largest defence industrial complexes in the developing world, yet the country continues to be overwhelmingly dependent on arms and equipment imports. This low level of […]

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Sustainable Municipal Waste Management in India

White Paper on Removing Barriers to Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management using Anaerobic Digestion in India India is the 5th largest economy in the world today with an ambition to become a USD 3 trillion economy (making it the 3rd largest economy in the world) by 2025. Accompanied by this ambitious target is the fact […]

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UK India Business Council: Advocating Business Success in 2020

This report outlines the breadth of advocacy work that the UKIBC has delivered in the last twelve months and sets out our objectives and plans for 2020. 2019 was another important year, during which we secured a number of advocacy wins that enhance the UK-India bilateral relationship. These include reforms to increase the post-study work […]

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Higher Education Collaboration: Futureproofing The UK India Partnership

With the UK developing policies to enable UK universities to expand their international engagement and India embarking on the largest reform of its higher education sector in a generation, the time is right to ask UK higher education institutions about the future with India. This report gathers the views of UK universities and business schools […]

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UKIBC’S 5th Annual Doing Business in India Report: The UK Perspective

This report marks the fifth annual ‘Doing Business in India’ Report by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC). Building on our previous reports, we asked UK companies and higher education institutions operating in India about India’s business environment, why they want to do business in India, the challenges they have faced, and their priorities for […]

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UK University Inputs For India’s New National Education Policy

The UK India Business Council’s formal submission on India’s New Education Policy on behalf of our UK higher education members, grounded in our report, ‘Beyond the Top 200’, published in November 2018. Our submission was made to Minister of State for Human Resource Development (MHRD), Shri Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, by a delegation of UK higher […]

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UKIBC Briefing Note – The Business Case for a UK-India Data Garage

The Business Case for a UK-India Data Garage Grounded in extensive interactions with Government and business across the UK-India corridor, the UKIBC has prepared this Briefing Note to facilitate consultation on the promising future of the UK-India Tech Partnership. A Data Garage is a ‘’virtual innovation” facility that enables participants seeking to deliver digital innovation […]

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