19 businessmen to visit US, Canada with Manohar lal

Aiming to showcase Haryana as an attractive investment destination, a 19-member team of leading business organisations of Haryana will form a part of the delegation led by Chief Minister Manohar lal to United States (US) and Canada during his ten days visit starting August 16.

An official spokesman on Monday said that Industry and Commerce Minister Capt. Abhimanyu would also accompany the delegation.The spokesman said that during the visit from August 16 to August 24, 2015, the delegation would visit New York, Washington, San Francisco, Vancouver and Toronto.

It would hold deliberations with leading industrialists of US and Canada and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). The objective would be to attract them to invest in Haryana in the key areas of food processing, Information Technology/ Information Technology Enabled Services, Solar Energy and Renewable Energy, Mass Rapid Transport, Skill Development, Defense Production — Aero Space and Defense, Electronics Manufacturing, Garments/Textile, Auto/Auto Components, Industrial Parks/logistics, Medical Tourism/Health Care and Pharma.

Apart from this, the delegation would also hold meetings with the United States Indian Business Council (USIBC) and Canada India Business Council (CIBC).

The delegation would include Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sanjeev Kaushal, Principal Secretary Industries Devender Singh, Managing Director, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) Vineet Garg, Director General, Information, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs Department Abhilaksh likhi and OSD to Chief Minister Mukul Kumar.

The spokesperson said that the business organisations that would also accompany the high level delegation include chairman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Managing Director and Regional Director of various business entities located at Gurgaon, Yamunanagar, Faridabad, Karnal and Rohtak.

These include chairman of  Hi-Tech Group Gurgaon, Deep Kapuria; CEO of liberty Shoes limited Karnal, Adesh Gupta; co-chairman and managing director of  Sandhar Technologies limited at Gurgaon, Jayant Davar; Chairman, CII Haryana and Managing Director Satyam Auto Components limited, Gurgaon, Sameer Munjal; Managing Director Rico Auto Industries limited Gurgaon, Arvind Kapur; Managing Director  Omax Autos limited Gurgaon, Jatender Kumar Mehta; Managing Director  Minda Industries limited at Gurgaon, Nirmal Minda, Chief Executive Officer  Su-Kam Power Systems limited at Gurgaon, Kumar Sachdev; Senior Vice-President and Head Corporate Affairs of  Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Private limited Harbhajan Singh; Regional Director, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Chandigarh Pikender Pal Singh; Director and Head of CII, Gurgaon, Ajay Dhyani among others.

Notably, US Ambassador to India Richard Verma, who recently called on the Chief Minister, had reportedly invited him to visit the USA to explore the possibilities of mutual cooperation in different fields.Manohar lal, a first-time MlA and first-time Chief Minister, had last week met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several Union Ministers seeking their support for promoting Haryana as an “investment destination”. The Chief Minister had met Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.

Manohar lal's foreign visit comes over a month after Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also led a business delegation to the US in late June to invite American investment and expertise to his state across various sectors.Earlier this year in February, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had visited the US and had invited industries and entrepreneurs to "Make in Madhya Pradesh", drawing upon the 'Make in India' campaign.