RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh’s 33 districts will be converted into export centres for which a-day workshop was held at a private hotel on Monday.

The Government of India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and District Administration Raipur.

49 districts are included under Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Nagpur. Workshops were organized to convert 12 districts of Maharashtra, 04 of Madhya Pradesh and 33 of Chhattisgarh into export centres.

CEO of District Panchayat Raipur, Abinash Mishra said that the state is known as the rice bowl, as a large number of farmers grow paddy.

Raipur district had registered an increase in trade. Along with rice, steel, aluminium, iron as well as forest wealth is found in abundance in the state. The product's demand is also being raised from foreign countries also. The small and medium industries are being promoted.

Dr. V. Shraman DGFT said in order to promote exports, currently 49 districts under Nagpur have been made export centres. It is the first workshop in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Details on port, custom duty, banking work, post office export, export through container, e-commerce custom duty, bill entry, siping bill, international trade, and others were given.

Where the experts provided information about e-commerce exports online from home, banking facilities were given by the DGFT team.