The Chhattisgarh Government which is already in the process of creating a comprehensive roadmap for its new industrial policy has started gearing up for its second Global Investors Meet to woo global investors for setting up their manufacturing base in the State.
Chief Minister Raman Singh on Monday held a meeting of senior officials from the Mantralaya and Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation (CSIDC) at Mantralaya to discuss the broad framework of the meet.
The Chief Minister told the officials in the meeting that the Investors Meet will be on the pattern of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make In India' pitch.
The meet will encourage the industrialists to come and invest in Chhattisgarh.The State will go all out to woo the entrepreneurs by giving them all facilities, he said.
Chhattisgarh Government’s representative will meet investors in various cities and provide them a detailed account of concessions available for setting up industrial projects in the State, Singh said.
He said just like the First Global Investors Meet held during 2012 'Rajyotsava', the Second Global Investors Meet will also focus on non-core sector, environment-friendly and job-intensive areas.
The key focus will be on Solar Energy, Information Technology, Automobile and other sectors, Singh said. The Chief Minister directed the concerned officers to prepare a road-map in the next four months.
On the Information Technology sector, meetings should be held in Bangalore and Hyderabad to convince the investors for setting up projects in Chhattisgarh. Meetings should be held in various big cities and officers should prepare a blueprint for the same, he said.
The officials present in the meeting said that the services of Global Consultancy firm 'Ernst & Young' will be taken for the Second Global Investors Meet. The firm played a vital role in holding the Global Investors Meet in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
Present in the meeting were — Chief Minister's adviser Shivraj Singh, Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, Additional Chief Secretary DS Misra, Energy and Information Technology Department and Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Aman Kumar Singh, Public Works, Public Relations and Gramodyog Department Principal Secretary Amitabh Jain, Secretary to Chief Minister Subodh Kumar Singh, Additional Secretary Rajat Kumar, Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation Managing Director Sunil Mishra and a number of other senior officers.