The UK on Friday announced plans to invest over 1.1 million pounds in a new pan-India network of British Business Centres, weeks after Prime Minister David Cameron visited the country.
The first centre will be set up in New Delhi later this year, followed by Mumbai soon after with the ultimate aim of establishing up to six such facilities across the country by 2017.
They form part of a global initiative to strengthen British business networks in 20 overseas markets, with the India focus being led by the UK India Business Council.
"I am pleased to announce today, that following the Prime Minister’s recent visit to India, we have agreed to support the setting up of a new business-led pan-India network of British business centres led by the UK India Business Council and supported by the British Business Groups (BBG) in India," Lord Stephen Green, UK trade and investment minister, announced at the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)