New Exim Policy 2012 - 2013 Chapter - 2 General Provisions Regarding Imports and Exports
While pursuing exports, Mr. Saraff found it was very difficult for a Indian Exporter or Importer or a Overseas Company to find meaningful and concrete information about Indian Export Import Trade.
Statistical organization published data with a 6 months delay and nos were often incorrect.
Visits to custom offices, shipping and Custom house agents was a nightmare as the sources were not professional or reliable or did not presented a national picture.
The most scaring part was there was no respect to statistical integrity among stakeholders.
The bureaucratic Govt Sources and obsolete methods of dissemination of information further compounded the problems.
The yearning for professional, reliable and complete Business Intelligence on international business inspired him to create InfodriveIndia.
To bridge the above gaps, Mr Saraff launched InfodriveIndia.com a web portal on exim trade in 1997 and instantly InfodriveIndia.com created many records.
- First to provide updated Exim Policy on net.
- First to provide India Export Import Data on net.
- First to create a Online Exim Policy Portal
- First to include Custom Duty in Export Import Data
- First to provide Export Import Trade Intelligence of 34 countries
- First to provide Custom Duty, DEBB , Drawback , IO Norms, Hs Classification , Notifications in searchable formats.
For complete list of milestones, please click here.Though launch of InfodriveIndia inspired many websites on Exports imports but none of them could keep such vast amount of information in updated form and searchable form.
Most of them turned out the mere replicas of Govt websites, which had outdated information in PDF formats.
After the dotcom bust, even InfodriveIndia had problems in meeting the costs and it went through its share of ups and downs. However through sheer perseverance Raakesh continued to support the portal Raakesh feels still a lot needs to be done, and plans to launch few more initiatives in Export Import trade in near future.
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