Mumbai, May 14 -- India's packaging industry must focus on sustainable and world-class packaging to support the country's growing manufacturing and export ambitions, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada said on Thursday while addressing the Diamond Jubilee Year inauguration ceremony of the Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP).

Speaking at the event themed "Six Decades of Innovation: Packaging - A Sustainable Future for Viksit Bharat," Prasada said packaging would play a major role in supporting India's manufacturing growth and export ambitions amid expanding global trade opportunities.

"The biggest factor that will happen with regard to free trade agreements is our manufacturing that has to grow," Prasada said....