The Indian government has the leather sector a target of increasing turnover to $27 billion by 2020, up from around $12 billion last year, of which $6.5 billion came from exports. This is ambitious, said the managing director of India's International Trade Promotions Agency, LC Goyal, but the industry can expect a series of policies in the next two years aimed at helping it achieve the goal. Mr Goyal said: "You have to be ambitious. This is how you achieve things. The government is going to simplify procedures to make it easier to export products from India and work hard to encourage entrepreneurs to set up ventures. There is immense optimism here and the leather industry has played a prominent role in bringing that optimism because it exports more than 50% of its turnover and three million people are engaged in working in it, with women representing 30% of that workforce. Can there be a better sector for women and for industrial promotion than this one?"
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