In line with the recently held Global Investors’ Summit in Indore, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced that a convention on global talents would be held in the State in January next year inviting all non-resident Indians (NRIs) to be a part of nation-building.
The Chief Minister stated this while chairing a discussion with State’s NRIs at his official residence here on Friday. The meeting was well-attended by a large number of NRIs who have come to the State to celebrate Diwali.
At the meeting, Chouhan informed them that a decision was taken at the Global Investors Summit to prepare a global talent pool.
Technical Education and Skill Development Minister Umashankar Gupta was also present on the occasion.
The Chief Minister said that Madhya Pradesh was the fastest growing State with immense opportunities and also informed that the State was pioneer in the country with double digit growth rate.
The State had done a wonder by achieving 24.99 per cent agriculture growth rate. This peak had been achieved even as the State had been registering over 20 per cent agriculture growth rate for last 2 years.
Referring to objectives and results of Global Investors Summit, he said that organic farming was done in about 45 lakh hectares in India of which Madhya Pradesh’s share was over 28 lakh hectares. The State Government had implemented a policy to promote organic farming.
Madhya Pradesh State Organic Certification Institute had been set up. Exemption of 50 per cent was given to farmers and farmers’ group in certification of organic products.
Similarly, 50 per cent subsidy was given to farmers on organic farming inputs.
At the meeting, Diwali greetings were exchanged. Anupam Pathak of Madhya Pradesh residing in Atlanta, USA, Shivanshu Khera and Shantanu from New Jersey, Ashutosh Agrawal from Princeton, Deep Sharma, Arun Sharma from California, Uday Uprit and Vinod Gupta from UAE, Dubai, Gunjan Pagare from Sydney, Australia and Rajesh Arora and Sushil Agrawal of Madhya Pradesh residing in Saudi Arabia were present on the occasion.