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India Trade Promotion Organisation
India Trade Promotion Organisation
Chennai
Kolkata
Mumbai
The Regional Offices, through their respective profile of activities,
ensure a concerted and well coordinated trade promotion drive
throughout the country
Subsidiaries
ITPO has two subsidiaries namely Tamil Nadu Trade Promotion
Organisation (TNTPO) and Karnataka Trade Promotion Organisation
(KTPO) with share holding of 51 percent in each of them. With the
commissioning of the state-of-the-art Chennai Trade Centre (CTC) in
January 2001 and the Trade Centre Bangalore in September 2004,
ITPO has successfully completed the first phase of the setting-up of
modern exhibition facilities outside Delhi.
In FY 2015–2016, TNTPO and KTPO registered revenues of about
INR 315 million and INR 48 million respectively and have reserves of
about INR 1840 million and INR 390 million respectively.[24]
The Chennai Trade Centre, which is now spread across 14,000 sqm,
is planned to be expanded by addition of 6,000 sqm and ITPO is
seeking approval from the board of the TNTPO for the sam
Strategic Issues
ITPO is operating a trade portal Trade Portal of India having all trade
related information including country profiles, product profiles, trade
directory etc. ITPO is networking with International Organisation in the
field of Trade and Commerce through membership or collaborative
arrangements such as Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), ITPO is
a founder member of Asian Trade Promotion Forum (ATPF) and
participates in its Annual meets regularly.[31]
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) provide round-the-clock security
at Pragati Maidan. Access control to the exhibitions area would also be
monitored by another team of the squad with help from private
security guards.
ITPO signed MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Federation
of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) to collaborate on
trade promotion. ITPO also signed MoU with the Confederation of
Indian Industry (CII) in April 2011, directed towards a collective and
well-directed effort to promote India's trade identifying the internal
strengths of the respective organisations.
ITPO signed MoU with National Book Trust (NBT), India for
conducting New Delhi World Book Fair every year, starting from
February 2013.
In 2013, ITPO has commissioned the Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to construct a Business Confidence Index and
a Consumer Confidence Index using data from ITPO's exhibitions.