Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said here on Monday that his South Africa visit was very successful. Possibilities of cooperation in a number of sectors with South Africa have emerged. He was talking to media at the State hangar after his return from South Africa tour.
Chouhan said that good work has been done in South Africa for women’s empowerment. Women have 45 per cent representation in Parliament without any statutory provision. More land is available there in proportion to population. Very good works have been done in wildlife tourism, mining, food processing and infrastructure development sectors. South African provinces have shown keen interest in agriculture growth and provisions for women’s empowerment in Madhya Pradesh.
The Chief Minister informed that heads of South African provinces have expressed desire to exhibit artifacts of African tribal culture in state’s Tribal
Museum and participate in Global Investors Summit, he added.
Earlier, Chouhan was accorded warm welcome here on Monday on his return from South Africa tour. Union minister for steel and Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Narendra Singh Tomar received the chief minister at the Raja Bhoj International Airport where ministers of Chouhan cabinet, office bearers of the BJP, parliamentarians, legislators and large number of party workers who were also present in large numbers also accorded warm welcome to him.
Chouhan hoped that in the ensuing investor’s summit to be held in Indore in next month investors and industrialists from South Africa would participate to explore the business opportunities in Madhya Pradesh.
Chouhan said that efforts would be made to implement the successful schemes running in South Africa in the interest of all sec2tions of society in the state. We would get support of South African government in the fields of Infrastructure development, food processing, environment, wild life protection and promotion of forest tourism,
he added.