The Minister had also announced that an eminent person or expert on trade policy would be the Chairman of the Board of Trade as against the earlier practice of having the Commerce Minister as Chairman.
Accordingly, the Board of Trade, headed by Dr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group was reconstituted with 39-members, including both non-official and official members.
The non official members of the Board of Trade are: Mr. Ishaat Hussain, Tata Sons; Mr. Baba Kalyani, Bharat Forge; Mr. Malvinder Singh, Ranbaxy; Mr. Irfan Allana, Chairman, Allana Sons; Mr. Jagdish Khattar, Managing Director, Maruti Udyog; Mr. Ravi Raheja, President Shoppers Stop Ltd. ; Mr. Prashant Ruia, ESSAR Group; Mr. A.C. Muthiah, SPIC; Mr. Harsh Neotia, Gujarat Ambuja; Mr. Rana Kapoor, Yes Bank; Mr. Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, Economist; President, CII; President, FICCI; President, FIEO; President, ASSOCHAM; Chairman, NASSCOM; Chairmen of Gems & Jewellery EPC; Apparel Export Promotion Council; Texprocil; SRTEPC; Export Promotion Council for Handicraft (EPCH); Seafood Exporters Association of India; Council for Leather Exports; Chemexcil; Pharmexcil; CAPEXIL; Electronic & Software Council; Export Promotion Council for EOUs; Engineering Export promotion council.
The official members of the Board of Trade are: Secretary, Department of Commerce; Secretary, Department of Revenue; Secretary (ER), Ministry of External Affairs; Secretary, Ministry of Textiles; Chairmen of India Trade Promotion Organization, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC); Managing Director, EXIM Bank; Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India; Secretary, Shipping; and the Director General of Foreign Trade, as Member Secretary of the Board.
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