FIEO is 50 Years Old
Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO)
celebrated its Golden Jubilee Function at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 4th of May, 2016. The elegant Function
was attended by President of India Shri Pranab
Mukherjee as the Chief Guest.
The Function was also attended by
Nirmala Sitharaman,
Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Commerce Secretary, Smt Rita Teaotia and DGFT Anup Wadhawan as Guests of
Honour.
Federation of Indian Export
Organisations (FIEO) was set up in 1965 has completed 50 years of its service
to the exporting community. The Federation started with a small room in
Allahabad Bank building moved to its state of art building at Niryat Bhawan, New Delhi. FIEO
added 17 more offices and its membership grew from 131 to over 22000 in 2015-16
recording a compound annual growth rate of 10.8% over 50 years base.
Reliance Industry was adjudged as the top foreign
exchange earner and leading exporter of last 50 years. In IT Services, TCS
bagged the Gold Award. Amongst the supporting institutions, State Bank of India
got the Gold award followed by Canara Bank and Punjab
National Bank.