About Us

India is steadily progressing ahead towards becoming ‘Viksit Bharat’. This journey calls for a greater trade, commerce and cultural activities between India and countries of the developing word collectively known as the Global South. This is an important agenda for the government as evident by two Voice of the Global South summits chaired by our Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in 2023. India also brought forward and highlighted the Global South during its G20 presidency.

Taking forward the clarion call of our Hon’ble Prime Minister to make India the ‘Voice of the Global South’, the Chamber of Commerce, Sustainable Development and Foreign Relations launched the ‘Chamber India-Global South’ initiative in January 2023.

We convened the Chamber India-Global South meeting and officially introduced Global South Organisation in June 2023 at Vanijya Bhawan, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi. The Global South Organisation was inaugurated by

• Shri Anurag Thakur, Hon'ble Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting and Youth Affairs & Sports

with live participation from

• Shri Som Parkash, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry

• Shri V. Muraleedharan, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for External Affairs & Parliamentary Affairs

• Shri Kapil Patil, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj

• Shri Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa of India

• Shri O. P. Dhankar, Former Cabinet Minister of Haryana

• Diplomats from 54 countries

Continuous engagement with the Global South

1

Upgradation of policies to promote economic growth

2

Developing people-to-people connect

3

Government relations

4

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Trade and commerce

6

Global South studies

7

Knowledge sharing

8

Conducting in-depth policy research and analysis

9

Policy advocacy on foreign forums

10

Address emerging issues and trends

Objectives

1. Continuous engagement with the Global South

2. Upgradation of policies to promote economic growth

3. Developing people-to-people connect

4. Government relations

5. Trade and commerce

6. Global South studies

7. Knowledge sharing

8. Conducting in-depth policy research and analysis

9. Policy advocacy on foreign forums

10. Address emerging issues and trends