Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has left for London today to take part in a ministerial-level meeting with his British counterpart to strengthen ties in the financial sector. The meeting will be held tomorrow.
He is accompanied by Department of Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan, Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu and Sebi Chairman U K Sinha. The minister will attend the fourth chapter of the India-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue.
“The Finance Minister will co-chair the dialogue with George Osborne, Chancellor of Exchequer, UK. The issues of UK-India partnership in education and skills, structural policy reforms and strengthening of India-UK financial sector collaboration are high on the agenda,” an official statement said.
The dialogue would also focus on a wide range of issues such as strengthening of the G-20 and IMF surveillance, the UK-India infrastructure partnership, global and domestic financial regulatory reforms and strengthening of UK-India financial sector reforms, among others, the statement added.
