It’s been less than two years and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh had already led a high-level delegation to as many as five countries so far to woo investors.
The countries so far visited in 2016 and 2017 by the Chief Minister had been China, United States, Japan, South Korea and now he is currently on a tour of Australia to invite investors to Chhattisgarh.
Singh in his current tour of Australia will hold meetings with potential investors in Sydney, Melbourne, Canes and Brisbane to boost Rs Make in Chhattisgarh’ in line of Rs Make-in-India’ concept.
It may be recalled that in April 2016, a host of key Chinese companies from Zhengzhou city of Henan province in China signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) worth 945 million USD (approx.Rs 6,600 Crore) for setting up a wide set of industrial projects in Chhattisgarh on Chief Minister Raman Singh’s week-long tour to China.
The Chief Minister on December 12, 2016 had stated that American entrepreneurs and NRIs have shown keen interest in 'Make in Chhattisgarh' vision created on the lines of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' campaign.
Singh had later shared his experience of 10-day tour to United States after returning from New Delhi to Raipur.
Singh had informed that the main motive of his US tour was to promote capital investment in various sectors of manufacturing under 'Make in Chhattisgarh' campaign and to project Chhattisgarh as an inseparable part of 'Make in India' campaign at global level.
Singh had stated that he and delegation of State Government attended Investors' Meet at New York on November 29, at Chicago on November 30 and at San Francisco on December 2. These meets were jointly organised by US-Indian Business Council (USIBC) and TII-Global.
In these events, more than 70 American industrialists, NRIs and CEOs of various companies participated.
likewise, the Investors' Meet in Chicago was attended by more than 60 investors and that in San Francisco was attended by more than 60 investors. American investors were invited to invest in Chhattisgarh.
In these events, Chhattisgarh Government's delegation had one-to-one discussions with investors about the wide scope of investment in non-core sectors of Chhattisgarh such as IT, defense, food processing, pharmaceuticals, solar energy, start-up and bio-technology.
The industrial groups with whom the delegation had discussions include UTS Global, E-Kisan Foundation, Global India Business Council, Vanguard Technology, Physician of Indian Origin, Cysco, Google and others.
In the Investors' Meet of San Francisco, three major MoUs were signed. On the occasion, Stanford University signed MoU with Chhattisgarh Government for exchange of teaching material, research, professors and students for educational purpose and also for creating awareness for prevention of rheumatic heart disease in Chhattisgarh.
Under the MoU signed by Spinta Global Accelerator with Chhattisgarh, steps will be taken to enhance professional competency and entrepreneurial skills in youth of the state.
Under the leadership of the Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh Government's delegation visited Digital Start-up 1871-Technical and Entrepreneurial Development Centre in Chicago, which was established to provide technical, financial and commercial assistance and guidance to Digital Start-up Business Community of Chicago.
A total of 400 High growth digital start-up works are underway in this centre. The delegation met the Chief Operational Officer of this centre Tom Alexander and had a discussion about developing start-up sector in Chhattisgarh.
On December 2, delegation had visited Google campus in San Francisco and met Vice-President Product Management Anjali Joshi and Group Product Manager Meenal Mehta to discuss about the scope of cooperation between Google and C’garh Government in sectors of health, IT and education.
Singh also detailed about the development prospects and possibilities in Chhattisgarh.
Chief Minister Raman Singh had taken up a nine-day international official tour while leading a high-level delegation of senior government officials and industrialists to Seoul and Japan to attract investments to Chhattisgarh on May 29, 2017.
The tour was scheduled months back and is an effort to provide a major boost to PM Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ dreams and also the State Government's very own ‘Make in Chhattisgarh’ campaign, a senior official informed.
The first day in Seoul was very important in terms of learning opportunities for the delegation. In the morning the representatives from Indian embassy had met the delegation on breakfast and briefed about the region. They also explained about the industrial and urban infrastructure development in Seoul. The infrastructure developed in the city is indeed world class, officials informed.
The delegation also visited Sungam Smart city and met with officials there.
The delegation found many similarities between Naya Raipur smart city and Sungnam city. The innovative use of IT and data sciences for better delivery of public services were few of the learnings from the visit.
The CM later met with investors in Seoul . The representatives from Sung Ha Telecom had met the Chief Minister and agreed to put up its mobile manufacturing plant in Naya Raipur.
Sung Ha Telecom is one of the biggest firms in the used Cellular Phone market in South Korea and have a very high-skilled experience in this field for 15 years.