The Ghana-India Trade Advisory Chamber (GITAC) has held the Ghana-India Business Impact Forum aimed at building  beneficial relationships between the two countries.

The forum held  at the Kempisky Hotel in Accra brought together business executives, policymakers and officials from the diplomatic community to discuss issues relating to promoting business and investment growth.

Thursday's event saw Indian investors express their readiness to to partner Ghana in the areas of  Textiles, health and Pharmaceuticals, waste management and water, a move that has been endorsed by the Ghanain counterpart.

Speaking at Tuesday's event, Ghana's High Commissioner to India H.E Mike Oquaye Junior expressed delight that the relationship between India and Ghana has kept on to grow, urging Ghanains to tap from in the Asian countries technological advancement.

"We forget that in order to produce anything you need technology, you need finance, you need to even to have the technology to crush mongo," he said.

"The president of Ghana has made it clear that he wants revolutionary transformational agenda.So we are not going to do things the way we used to do it before.

"Because obviously if we need we need to be able to it in different way to get different results."

He described Ghana as business hub that gives the continent of Africa a different outlook.

“There is more profitability doing business in Ghana going forward,” he said.

Investing in Waste Management and Water

Deputy minister of Sanitation and Water Resources Hon. Patrick Boamah in his submission urged Ghanaians to show more interest in investment in that area.

He said a lot of strategies have been put in place by the Government to make the sanitation sector a profitable one.

"We have enormous opportunity in the waste management sector but often times Ghanaians are not interested in investing there, becauseo because of the cost of investment over there," he said.

"Just a few Ghanaian companies who have the capacity, who have the skill to go into that sector."

He said a lot of projects are going to solve Ghana's water problem.

He said many Ghanaians will have access to clean potable water upon completion of those projects.

The export agenda

India's investment in Africa is only second to China, but the former is the largest importer of  Ghanaian products.

According to the Mike Oquaye, Accra must improve upon business relationship with Delhi.

"If Ghana wants to focus on export then we have to focus on countries like India because the are the ones who import from us things like gold, cashew, timber shear butter," he said.

"India is the 6th largest economy in the world has and I want Ghanaians to partner India to move along with the president's agenda to achieve what he is doing.

"We must be super agressive in achieving the export agenda.

GITAC consists of members from various sectors including mining, trade, financial services, real estate and construction, energy and health.

The rest are legal services, hospitality, engineering, agro-processing, manufacturing, import and export services, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), education, and airline and shipping services.

According to President of GITAC Mr Dominic Oduro-Antwi,  the chamber will soon turn it's direction into the educational sector to support brilliant student in the area of technology.