Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is leading a delegation comprising Union Ministers S. Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal and Jitin Prasada. File
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Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman will lead a ministerial delegation that will attend the 4th India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR) to be held on August 20, 2026, the Ministry of Finance said.
The delegation will also include Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar, Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Electronics & IT and Commerce & Industry Jitin Prasada.
In a separate release, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said that Mr. Goyal would be accompanied by “around 70 senior business leaders from diverse sectors” to strengthen India-Singapore economic and commercial ties.
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“The delegation includes representatives from technology, software and AI, manufacturing and engineering, infrastructure and sustainability, financial services and FinTech, healthcare and life sciences, food and agriculture, logistics, maritime and trade, and professional services,” the Commerce Ministry statement said.
The ISMR, established in 2022, is the apex ministerial mechanism for advancing the India-Singapore Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP).
According to the Ministry of Finance, the ISMR provides the two countries 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.
The roundtable will be held alongside the 4th India-Singapore Business Roundtable (ISBR), and will be followed by the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding and a lunch hosted by the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore for all ISMR and ISBR delegates.
Published – August 19, 2026 10:46 am IST
