Export education is the training that teaches people how to sell goods and services abroad. In India it grew from IIFT (1963) to DGFT's Niryat Bandhu scheme, a…
India needed professionals who could manage foreign trade. IIFT was set up to train them and to research trade.
Indian firms had to compete abroad, so MSMEs, managers and entrepreneurs joined officials and trading houses.
Tariffs, standards, services and IP rules made exporting a rules-based discipline.
Yes. International business became a full discipline combining research, training and degrees.
A DGFT scheme of training, counselling and outreach for new and potential exporters, announced on 13 October 2011.
A token budget came in 2013-14 and Rs 2 crore in 2014-15. More than 1,15,000 people have been trained since.
On 9 September 2015. A self-paced anytime-anywhere MOOC followed in February 2019.
NEP 2020 and the UGC's July 2021 guidelines push global curricula, exchanges, credit recognition and partnerships.
FTP 2023 backs e-commerce export training and Dak Ghar Niryat Kendras. 1,013 were running by December 2024.
A single online window linking exporters to missions abroad, export councils, banks and officials.
Niryat Protsahan for finance and Niryat Disha for quality, branding, logistics, trade intelligence and capacity building.
Almost half of India's exports are now services, so a future exporter may never ship a container.
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