Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will start the domestic roadshows from Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, on January 5, meeting the country’s leading tycoons and bankers as well as prominent film personalities in the context of the upcoming Film City in Noida.
The roadshows will be held in nine cities of the country to introduce potential investors to the opportunities available and the favourable business climate in Uttar Pradesh.
Prior to the roadshow and meeting with top industrialists and bankers, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will make a courtesy call on Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari. After this he will meet officials of various banks at Hotel Taj itself. Then the chief minister will participate in the Global Investors’ Summit (GIS) roadshow from 12 noon to 2 pm.
In this roadshow lasting a couple of hours, representatives of various industry groups will be encouraged to invest in Uttar Pradesh. They will be given information about ease of doing business and ease of starting business in UP. In the evening, Yogi will meet the producers, directors and artistes of the film industry.
Earlier, eight delegations of ministers and senior officials visited 21 cities in 16 countries and received investment proposals worth Rs 7.12 lakh crore. The roadshows in nine Indian cities are a continuation of that exercise.
As per the schedule of the chief minister, Yogi will have a one to one meeting with various industrialists. The meetings will be on the basis of Business to Government (B2G). As per the schedule, a total of 17 B2G meetings are scheduled. Prior to the roadshow, the chief minister will meet Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, Piramal Enterprise Ltd Chairman Ajay Piramal, JSW Group MD Sajjan Jindal, Torrent Power MD Jinal Mehta and Hiranandani Group CEO Darshan Hiranandani. Later he will hold talks with Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran, Parle Agro Chairman Prakash Chauhan and MD Shawna Chauhan, Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd. CEO Karan Adani, Reliance Industries Ltd. Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Godrej Industries Executive Chairman Pirojsha Godrej.
Meanwhile, a delegation of representatives of Habil F Khorkiwala, Chairperson, Wockhardt’, Anant Singhania, President, Indian Merchant Chambers; Dr. Tushar Motiwala, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital; Uday Shankar, Star & Disney India; Dinesh Kanabar, Founder and CEO, Dhruv Advisors; KKR India CEO Sanjay Nair and Vice-Chairman of Everston Group Dhanpal Jhaveri will also meet the chief minister.
Besides, the chief minister’s meetings with Ashok P Hinduja, Chairman of Hinduja Group of Companies, Hindustan Unilever Ltd CEO and MD Sanjeev Mehta, Founder of Ramky Group of Companies Ala Ayodhya Rami Reddy, Pankaj Munjal of Hero Cycles, Vice-Chairman and MD of RPG Enterprise (CEAT Tyres) Anant Goenka and Larsen & Toubro Ltd’s CEO and MD SN Subramaniam will continue till late in the evening.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will inform these industrialists about investment opportunities in Uttar Pradesh and encourage them to invest in the state.
Yogi will have a meeting with the stalwarts of the film industry in between the meetings on Thursday itself. A short film on Film Bandhu and Film City will also be shown to the guests on the occasion, giving information about the Film City project. Yogi will discuss with these representatives the promotion of the Film City project and also investment. People from the film world who have been invited for this meeting include producer Boney Kapoor, Kumar Mangat Pathak, producer and director Subhash Ghai, Vinod Bachchan, Rahul Mitra, director Narayan Singh, Anil Sharma, Deepak Mukut, writer and director Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, producer-director Mukesh Chhabra and producer and Adlabs founder and MD Manmohan Shetty. Actor and Gorakhpur MP Ravi Kishan, Rajpal Yadav, Paresh Rawal, Manoj Joshi, Satish Kaushik, Jackie Shroff, Sunil Shetty, Jackky Bhagnani, Azamgarh MPs Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua, Arjan Bajwa and Rahul Dev will also be present in the meeting. Apart from these, lyricists Manoj Muntashir, Sameer Anjaan, singers Udit Narayan and Kailash Kher will be a part of this meeting. Along with the film world, Yogi will also meet representatives of companies related to OTT, studios and other activities related to cinema. These include Ajit Andhare from Viacom18, Ashish Singh, CEO, Lyca Production, Jatin Sethi, MD, Advisor and Producer, Zee Group, Lada Guruden Singh, Head, Sony Pictures International, Gaurav Gandhi, Country Head, Amazon Prime, Aparna, Head of India Originals, Amazon Prime Purohit, Jio Studios Head of India Originals Tejkaran Singh Bajaj, Producers Guild President Shibasish Sarkar and CEO Nitin Tej Ahuja.