Aimed at seeking more foreign investment to accelerate the pace of development in the State, the visit of the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to Japan and South Korea begins with an eventful first day on September 29 in Tokyo.
The Chief Minister along with a high level delegation will hold discussions with the vice-president of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Hideaki Domichi about the prospects of investment in various areas of cooperation.
Chouhan will meet the CEO of Japan Bank for International Cooperation Hiroshi Watanabe and hold dialogue about mobilisation of financial resources for the ambitious development projects in Madhya Pradesh. He will meet the Chairman of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Hiroyuki Ishige and explore the opportunities for business cooperation. He will then meet Minister of State for Ministry of Trade and Industry of Japan and discuss investment opportunities.
The 15-member delegation includes Minister of Industries Yashodhara Raje Scindia, senior administrative officials and prominent industrialists. The Chief Minister will invite the potential investors and business groups to the three-day Global Investors Summit to be held from October 19 to 2, in 2016.
In the recent past, Madhya Pradesh had successfully branded itself among global business community as an investment-friendly state with immense investment potential.
The Chief Minister's Japan -Korea visit assumes importance with respect to the business reform ranking done by the World Bank and the Government of India's Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. Madhya Pradesh figures among the top five States for executing trade promotion policies and engineering trade policy reforms.
The delegation comprises Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General of the Confederation of Indian Industries, Managing Director of Nahar Group Kamal Oswal, Managing Director of Jaypee Group Sunny Gaur, Director of Videocon Group Aniruddh Venugopal Dhoot, Joint Managing Director SEl Manufacturing, Dhiraj Saluja , Director of Indus Mega Food Park Cherukuvada Venkat Narsinmha Raju, Head of Panasonic India's solar division Sanjay Bhalla, managing director of lT Foods VK Arora, Welspun Energy founder Vineet Mittal, Managing Director of SRF limited Ashish Bharat Ram, executive vice president of Rohto Pharmaceutical lekh Juneja, Head of Bridgestone India Ajay Sevkari, Joint Managing Director of Vardhman Group Neeraj Jain, Director International Marketing of Concor Yash Vardhan and Executive Director of Econ Antri ltd Harish Bhojwani.