New Delhi: India has submitted its offers at World Trade Organisation (WTO) to open up various services including health, telecom, engineering, construction, book keeping and accounting, travel and tourism, maritime and computer-related services.

Services negotiations at WTO are carried out in form of offers and requests and according to official sources, India's offer for these sectors are in various modes of supply.

They, however, said most of the offers cover Mode 1 and Mode 4 of supply, implying cross-border supply of services and movement of natural persons respectively.

The offers made can be revised or withdrawn depending on the response received from the trading partners.

India had made limited commitments at the end of Uruguay round in some sectors like engineering, computer-related, hospital and tourism, which have been revised now.

Cabinet Committee of WTO headed by the Prime Minister had approved the broad strategy for services negotiations at WTO in June this year.

The Cabinet had also made it clear that Government was not willing to negotiate on the opening up of distributive (retail and wholesale), legal, posts and courier and audio-visual services.

However, other services like energy, education, environment, recreation, culture and sports services could be considered for opening up only after undertaking more studies on these sectors.

India, which is emerging as a major global services provider in various sectors, is trying to play a pro-active role in the services negotiations.

The offers that are to be tabled have been made in consultation with the concerned ministries, they added.