Guwahati : Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the Advantage Assam – Global Investors’ Summit in Guwahati on February 3.
For the first time Assam government has organised such type of mega event in Assam as aims to attract investors and to promote Assam as India’s expressway to the South East Asian countries.
PM Modi will formally inaugurate the 2-day long largest ever investment promotion event at Sarusajai stadium in Guwahati at around 11 am on February 3.
The summit has been organised on February 3-4 at a total expenditure of Rs 32 crore.
For the first time, Assam has organized the Global Investors’ Summit which aims to promote the state globally and to attract investors.
Over 2000 domestic and international industry leaders, business tycoons including top corporate honchos Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani, Dilip Sanghvi, Anand Burman and Harshavardhan Neotia will participate in the summit.
Amar Abrol from Air Asia India, Welspun Group’s Balakrishan Goenka, Subhash Chandra of Essel Group, Emami’s Sushil Goenka, Rashesh Shah of Edelweiss and Sanjiv Puri from ITC, Naresh Trehan from Medanta -The Medicity, filmmaker Subhash Ghai, Dr. Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Essel Group and ZEE have also registered for the event.
On the other hand, Dasho Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lyonpo Damcho Dorji, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lyonpo Lekey Dorji, Minister of Economic Affairs of Bhutan, Amir Hossain Amu, Minister of Industries, Bangladesh, Syed Muazzem Ali, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India, Dr. Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism, Cambodia, Ounethoang Khaophanh, Vice Minister of Information Culture and Tourism, Government of Laos, Dr. Than Myint, Minister of Commerce, Myanmar, Ambassadors, High Commissioners and Business Delegations from 12 other countries like USA, Vietnam, UAE, Netherland, Nepal, Korea, Japan, Israel, Indonesia, Germany, Czech Republic, Canada will also be part in the mega event.
Several union ministers including Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister for Commerce and Industries, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Law and Justice, Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister for Textiles & Information and Broadcasting, Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Jitendra Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for the Ministry of Home are expected to take part in the proceedings.
On the other hand, tight security has been arranged in Guwahati ahead of the summit.
Over 2000 security personnel have been engaged for the entire summit and 19 Superintendent of Police (SP) have supervised the security.
Assam Police has specially trained 200 commandos for the mega event.
Apart from it, helicopters, drones also being engaged for security purpose.
Guwahati City Police Commissioner Hiren Nath said that, Assam police has provided adequate security for the first ever mega business summit.
Meanwhile, Assam government said that, the state government has been championing for long, the need of a rapid industrialisation in the State. It has been firm on not being proponent to pollution creating industries. The State thus has carefully crafted its industrial design so as to provide access to those technology enabled industries which has negligible carbon footprint.
According to the Assam government, a 160 square km industrial corridor has been approved by the state cabinet to facilitate easy land purchases by business persons to establish firms without land conversion issues.
