More than 300 National Cadet Corps (NCC) volunteers will take charge of the traffic in the city from Saturday to help government make Global Investor Summit (GIS) on February 16-17 a huge success. Traffic SP Sanjay Ranjan Singh said on Friday that these cadets would be deployed on city roads in phased manner, starting from Albert Ekka Chowk from Saturday.
Singh said that over 1,500 traffic police personnel would take care of traffic arrangements until GIS concluded. “Divided in 28 Sectors and 17 Zones for the Summit, the city traffic will be taken care of by these personnel including Dy. SPs accompanied by additional hands of NCC. Footpath shops are being removed and ambulance facilities are being arranged with help of all government and private hospitals in case any emergency arises during the Summit,” said Singh.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Raghubar Das invited transportation services providing company Hyperloop Transportation in GIS. Hyperloop representatives led by Chairman BG Grista met with the CM on Friday, where Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Additional Chief Secretaries Amit Khare and RK Srivastava, Principal Secretary to the CM Sanjay Kumar, Urban Development Department Principal Secretary AK Singh, Industries Department Director K Ravi Kumar and other officials were also present.Hyperloop representatives had come with proposal of installing tube-based transportation system within Ranchi and between Ranchi, Bokaro, Dhanbad and Jamshedpur. The company has said while giving presentation that it was ready to go with the project on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode with no financial assistance from government.
GIS under Momentum Jharkhand is less than a fortnight away from now. And the way preparations are going on at Khelgaon are indicative enough to make sure that the government bodies want to leave no stone unturned to make this event a huge success.Over 10,000 of delegates, 400 exhibitors, more than 200 business tycoons from global business arena, Ambassadors of over 100 countries and hundreds thousands of visitors in two days are expected to come in the brainstorming sessions about investment opportunities in the State.
The event spread in two days will have exhibitions on both the days with more than 400 stalls showcasing art and culture of the State, brainstorming sessions of discussions on business issues and industries, business meetings related to investment proposals among others.
The event will have inaugural session at Tana Bhagat Stadium, exhibition inauguration, Seminar on Automobiles and Auto Components, and IT, BPO and ESDM on February 16. Sashi Ruia and Prashant Ruia (Essar Group), Naveen Jindal (Jindal Steel & Power ltd), Sajjan Jindal (JSW ltd), legendary business icon Ratan Tata, Satish Pai (Hindalco Industries ltd), Ashish Dubey (Mahindra & Mahindra), Anil Agarwal and Pratik Agrawal and Tom Albanese (Vedanta), Shobhna Kamnieni (Appolo) and Naushad Forbes (Forbes Marshal) are among those who have nodded for their presence on either of the days in the event, which is to be inaugurated by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The event will have seminars on Food and Feed Processing, Textiles, Garments, Footwear and Handicraft, Higher Education and Skill Development, Urban Infrastructure and Smart City on February 17, other than exhibitions and business meetings. Workshops are being conducted in all the departments of the government for whatever has been assigned to them.
The government bodies, one or the other, have been sitting on daily basis to either review the preparations or to plan something new. DC Manoj Kumar had on Thursday taken a review meeting of the preparations of the event along with District Transport Officer (DTO), Civil Surgeon and other officials. He directed DTO to coordinate with airport parking representative, as over 13 business tycoons have informed the government about their arrival in private jets, who will be brought to the venue by helicopters. The officials at the venue in Khel Gaon are in the final stages of giving preparation works of three helipads finishing touch. The DC also directed Civil Surgeon to establish temporary health camp at the venue, and asked drinking water and sanitation officials to complete their works within time.