Sitharaman leads delegation to Singapore for ministerial roundtable
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is leading a high-level delegation to Singapore for the 4th India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable. The talks focus on strengthening economic partnerships across sectors like manufacturing, digitalization, and sustainability.
Why it matters
This roundtable is a strategic mechanism for deepening bilateral economic ties and technological collaboration between India and Singapore.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday (August 19, 2026) embarked on an official visit to Singapore with a ministerial delegation to participate in the 4th India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR).
Ms. Sitharaman is leading a delegation comprising S. Jaishankar , Minister of External Affairs; Piyush Goyal , Minister for Commerce & Industry; and Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Electronics & IT and Commerce & Industry.
The roundtable is scheduled for August 19-20, 2026, the Finance Ministry said in a post on X.
Established in 2022, the ISMR is a key high-level economic mechanism between India and Singapore. It provides a platform to review progress and explore new areas of collaboration across six pillars: advanced manufacturing, connectivity, digitalisation, healthcare, and medicine, skills development, and sustainability.
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