Appreciating the provisions for land availability, improved power supply and road network, investors submitted proposals to the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at Bengaluru during their one-to-one dialogue session. The Chief Minister informed the potential investors and industrialists that favourable investment scenario prevails in the state and attractive package has been offered to industries.
Chairman of Manipal Group Sudhakar Pai revealed his expansion plan and informed that Madhya Pradesh has been given priority considering the investment friendly policies and atmosphere. Others who met the Chief Minister included representatives of RV College of Engineering, Rural Shores, ARM India, Surin Automotive and Biocon.
Surin Automotive expressed willingness to set up a manufacturing unit at Indore. Its Joint Managing Director Aman Choudhari greatly appreciated the land availability, improved power supply, BRTS and simplified official formalities and noted that the prevailing scenario is beneficial for investors in all sectors.
The Rural Shores, which impart basic technical training to rural youth and arranges assignments from corporate houses to be done in rural areas, has also given proposal for setting up training units in the state. Its head Neeraj Agrawal informed that such units are operating in Chand and Sausar of Chhindwara district. The trained rural youth are executing assignments from big corporates like Airtel.
The Chief Minister invited the Rural Shores to explore possibilities for setting up training units in other districts. Kiran Majumdar Shaw of Biocon and vice-president of First American Private limited Girdhar Rajgopal also discussed their investment proposals.
Those present included Minister for Industries Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Chief Secretary Antony DeSa, principal secretary Industries Mohammad Sulaiman, Secretary to CM Hariranjan Rao, Managing Director of Trade and Investment Facilitation Corporation Deepak Ahuja, Managing Director of MP Electronics Development Corporation M Selvendran.