Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated ‘Make In India Week’ in Mumbai and encouraged investors to explore investment avenues in mineral rich Jharkhand. Modi in his inaugural speech expressed that the event would lead to a new dawn in the manufacturing sector. Modi visited Jharkhand pavilion later on the inaugural day. The inaugural session was also attended by Chief Minister Raghubar Das.
“The world is looking towards a rising India with hope. I firmly believe that new avenues of investment would be available in coming days,” said Modi, adding “Jharkhand is rich in minerals and it offers a great opportunity to investors”.
Das made best use of the momentum created by the PM’s speech especially after encouraging words about Jharkhand and informed the gathering about the evolving business climate in the State. He shared progress made by Jharkhand on making the State friendly to investors and also apprised the attendees of the six-day conference about various mechanism to expedite process of approval for fresh projects.
“Jharkhand is ready to welcome investors with favourable environment. State will march on road of development and system will evolve with investments,” said Das.
The Chief Minister welcomed investors and expressed that the State was offering better facilities to investors willing to venture into Jharkhand. later, after the inauguration Modi and Das visited Jharkhand pavilion. According to sources, Modi praised the State Government for evolutionary measures taken for the development of the State.
Significantly, renowned industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Kumar Managlam Birla besides representatives of several corporate houses met Das to discuss areas of investment.
Meanwhile, the Department of Industry with the help of the knowledge partner will be organising Jharkhand Investor Summit on February 17 and an interaction session on February 16 to hard sell Jharkhand’s continuous endeavour to fuel growth of industries. Notably, a battery of special guests which include - Sajjan Jindal, Naivn Jindal and Prashant Ruia-- will be delivering their views about investment in Jharkhand at the summit. A 10 minute audio-visual presentation on ‘Advantage Jharkhand and Industry Investment Climate’ will be displayed to apprise interested corporate houses about investment climate in Jharkhand followed by a panel discussion spread in two sessions on ‘Advantage Jharkhand’.
The panel discussion will focus on nine key areas - heavy machinery, automobile, metal and mining, infrastructure, healthcare, food processing, finance, media and entertainment besides textile sector-to pull investment in these areas.