Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit (VGGIS), the initiative taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2003 during his tenure as Gujarat Chief Minister, has a global platform for knowledge sharing, said Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Monday.
The Gujarat CM organised a roadshow in Mumbai as a part of the run-up to seventh edition of the VGGIS-2015 to be held in Gandhinagar next year in January.
The much awaited event will be inaugurated by PM Modi and has generated a lot of interest among the people connected with trade and industries in Mumbai and Maharashtra.
According to the sources in the State Government, the roadshow got a huge response as more than 400 industrialists, Consulate Generals from USA, Japan, Canada and Singapore among others participated in it.
While briefing the role about VGGIS-2015, Patel said that Gujarat is growing in each and every business promoting sectors with the combination of political stability along with investor friendly and developmental policies. Therefore, Gujarat has become a knowledge sharing platform for the investors of the country and the world.
In this regard, she added, the recent IT and e-Governance policies declared by the Government of Gujarat cements the determination to fulfill PM's mission of 'Make in India' and digital India.
She said that Gujarat is shaping the imagination by giving its share as more than 7.5% in in-house productivity of the Nation and maximising employment through its' modern infrastructural facilities, strong policies and the productivities of MSME sector and is capable to be a frontier in global economy sector through the positive effect in Indian economy.
Anandiben expressed her expectations for being a partner in all-round developmental determination of Gujarat in social, medical, education, women empowerment and youth skill development sectors.
Gujarat became the prominent partner in two important programmes of the Prime Minister Skill India-Clean India through inspiring people-partnership in youth employment and cleanliness campaign, she said while praising participation of the industrial houses in toilet building, cleanliness campaign.
Gujarat's Industries Minister Saurabh Patel said now Gujarat has become the first preference for the global investors and a manufacturing hub. Gujarat is going to raise share of manufacturing sector from 28.2% to 32% of GDP by 2017.