Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, on Friday (September 19, 2025) mentioned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is investing deeply in high-tech areas, and India may very well be looking at collaboration in the sector.
Mr. Goyal was addressing the media after rounding up a collection of high-level conferences with prime officers, trade leaders, and the Indian neighborhood in the UAE throughout his two-day go to.
“The UAE has also become a hub which attracts investments from around the world,” Mr. Goyal mentioned, including that the nation attracts companies from around the globe to take a look at the UAE as a hub of exercise for Africa, Middle East, and Central Europe.
“India would like to leverage on that hub that the UAE has been successful in creating,” he mentioned.
Mr. Goyal, whose delegation included 75 trade captains, mentioned that India is looking to develop investments quickly.
On resetting funding targets, Mr. Goyal mentioned whereas the UAE is already among the many prime 5 – 6 nations that invests in India, he sensed a a lot bigger funding circulate. “Investors in the UAE are sensible sufficient to recognise that India is a chance not to be missed.”
“We will be looking at much larger pools of capital, both FDI, and FII,” Mr. Goyal added.
He also said that the proposed Bharat Mart project will give small businesses the opportunity to become large exporters. “Already more than 9,000 companies have shown an interest to come to Bharat Mart,” he said.
Mr. Goyal said that data centres and technology are the UAE investors’ focus areas. “There was a lot of interest in the banking sector and in our start-ups. There was interest of potential investors in logistics ecosystem in India.
