Briefly the council’s activities and services can be summarized as under:
Acts as the co-ordinating agency to facilitate quantum increase in project exports
Regularly collects, collates and disseminates technical and other information pertaining to overseas markets and new project possibilities world-wide to member companies through monthly magazine : GPO (Global Project Opportunities)
Promoting, facilitating project exports/export of project construction items/goods
Joint ventures, technical collaborations & strategic alliances
Disseminating market information, trends & policy implications and publishing information on commercial, technical and technological developments pertaining to project exports sector
Participating in major International fairs & specialized trade shows across the globe, organizing buyer-seller meets in India and abroad besides B2B meets in focus countries
Offering technical, marketing & export assistance to Indian exporters
Inviting key resource personnel for fairs, seminars and lectures for exchange of information, knowledge, ideas and strategies
Serving as a focal point between the government and the industry members, while focusing on the overall growth and development of the Indian project exports sector
Co-ordinating the promotion of technical and/or economic co-operation between Indian project exporters and foreign companies
a) By promoting technology transfer especially in sophisticated technology fields which would encourage Indian companies to jointly bid for mega projects
b) By assisting in formation of consortia and/or joint venture arrangements to facilitate bidding for or executing large projects
Co-ordinating the functioning of the Screening Committee (a statutory committee set up by the Government) to appraise and approve the project exporters (construction engineering) in terms of their technical, financial or managerial competence against pre-set norms so as to permit only capable companies undertake projects overseas