Branding Jharkhand as new and emerging gateway for ‘Make in India’ dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the State Government unveiled as many as six new policies in Mumbai aimed to attract seminal investment back home. The roadshow named as ‘Momentum Jharkhand’ ahead of global investors’ summit due next year presented its best picture before the investors in the financial capital of the country.
Being organised in association with industry conglomerate CII, it also saw the maiden meeting of the Jharkhand Investment Promotion Board (JIPB), the special body for planning and executing strategies to enhance Jharkhand’s position as a global business centre.
Addressing array of investors present, Chief Minister Raghubar Das underlined the advantages of investing in the State well known for its natural resources. “While Mumbai is the Gateway of India, Jharkhand is fast emerging as the gateway of Make in India. It was the vision of our foremost industrial pioneers, Jamsedji Tata who set the tone for Make in India back in 1907 in Jamshedpur. Jharkhand is rich but poverty still looms large. It is our mission to drive our people out of poverty and you, the industry and investors are our partners in this mission,” said the CM
The Jharkhand Government also signed several MoUs with investors to improve healthcare, education and textile sectors among others.
He also referred to Jharkhand’s incomparable natural beauty along with all kinds of resources which are now backed with suitable policies. The CM reiterated his resolve to synergise education, skills development, infrastructural development and livelihood generation to empower the youth of the State to prevent further attrition of its human resource.
Also present there was Urban Development Minister CP Singh and Education Minister Neera Yadav. “We call upon investors to invest in our smart city project on Public-Private Partnership basis.
Besides, solid waste management, multimodal urban transport and housing for all are key sectors in which the Government is soliciting private investments,” said Singh. While Neera Yadav stressed on the centrality of the skill development agenda of the Government in this campaign.
Six new policies, representing a strategic diversification of the mineral and human resource rich State’s industrial landscape, were launched on the occasion. Policies for Information Technology & IT Enabled Services (IT / ITeS), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Start-up, Electronic Systems Design & Manufacturing (ESDM), Automobile and Auto Components, Textiles & Footwear presented before the honchos of industries.
Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma said that the Government had come to Mumbai to make Jharkhand more visible to the investors of the city. Industries Secretary Sunil Kumar Barnwal presented the State’s diverse investment opportunities before the investors, including about ‘start-up’ where a team with IIM Ahmadabad is working closely.
Ninad Karpe, CMD of Aptech ltd, Gaurav Taneja of the campaign’s knowledge partner Ernst & Young, Sudhir Dhingra, Chairman of Orient Craft ltd, Seshagiri Rao, Joint Managing Director and Group CFO, JSW Group, TV Narendran, Managing Director, Tata Steel (India & S.E. Asia), Suman Bose, MD & CEO of Seimens Industry Software and several others remained present on the occasion.