Pradyut Bordoloi, Minister of Industries & Power, Assam lighting the lamp during the inuguration of the NE Investors Meet held at Guwahati on Thursday, August 18.
DIMAPUR, AUGUST 18 (MExN): The Indian Chamber of Commerce organized a INVESTORS MEET at Guwahati NEDFI Convention Centre today. Mr. Pradyut Bordoloi, Minister of Industries & Power, Assam, Mr. N. K. Das, Chief Secretary, Assam, J. B. Singh, Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce, Assam, Dr. Rajeev Singh, Director General, Indian Chamber of Commerce addressed the investors who had expressed interest to invest in Assam at ICC’s 6th Northeast Business Summit in Mumbai. More than hundreds of investors from Northeast and 32 Investors from rest of the country and as many as 35 Govt. Officials attended the meet at Guwahati today. This was stated in a press note from Mahesh Deori Regional Director-NE of ICC.
The inaugural session started off with welcome address of ICC Director General Dr. Rajeev Singh wherein he outlined the aims and objective of the Indian Chamber of Commerce that has been has been spearheading a special drive for economic development of the North Eastern Region. Apart from promoting the region as an ideal investment destination we have been taking a number of sector specific initiatives and ‘Investors Meet’ being one event of ICC.
‘Since 2002, Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has ventured on a major initiative to facilitate assimilation of the North East into the economic mainstream of the country in the form of a Summit entitled ‘NORTH EAST BUSINESS SUMMIT’. The main objective behind such initiative was to create an environment that is conducive and a firm base to facilitate the flow of business and investment into this resource rich region.
This mainly includes proposals for development that are sustainable and undertaken on a continuous basis, thus bringing in more business and investments in the North East Region and providing market linkages for enhancing economic development. ‘, Dr. Singh informed the august gathering.
Addressing the investors Mr. N K Das, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Assam said that Assam is a state with full of potentials and there is no dearth of resources. He welcomed all the prospective investors to Assam to explore the key potentials area for their investment and assured the gathering that Government of Assam will take sector specific initiatives to avail all sorts of support in developing medium scale industries in all parts of Assam.
Mr. Pradyut Bordoloi, Industry and Power Minister Govt. of Assam in his keynote address started off with a joke that he as minister had been trying to woo the investors from country years all together now. He made a metaphoric statement that the state of Assam have always been like a would be groom and have treated the investors like a would be wedded bride so the state has been able to woo a whopping Rs.20,000 Crores of investment in Assam.
Raising concern over land allocation issue to large scale industries in and around Guwahati, the minister was of the opinion that large scale investors should explore the well connected regions like Nalbari, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Golaghat where land could be allocated for medium and small scale industries as there is no land in and around Guwahati. He appealed investors in construction sector to make model towns like Gurgoan and Noida in greater Guwahati region.
The industry Minister went on to add that Medium and Small Scale Industry are the growth drivers of a state and nation at large and extended warm welcome to all investors in Assam and assured of full support on behalf of Ministry of Industries. Govt. of Assam. He also thanked the Indian Chamber of Commerce for providing platforms for investors in this part of the country and was elated to see the overwhelming response from various sectors.
The inaugural session started off with welcome address of ICC Director General Dr. Rajeev Singh wherein he outlined the aims and objective of the Indian Chamber of Commerce that has been has been spearheading a special drive for economic development of the North Eastern Region. Apart from promoting the region as an ideal investment destination we have been taking a number of sector specific initiatives and ‘Investors Meet’ being one event of ICC.
‘Since 2002, Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has ventured on a major initiative to facilitate assimilation of the North East into the economic mainstream of the country in the form of a Summit entitled ‘NORTH EAST BUSINESS SUMMIT’. The main objective behind such initiative was to create an environment that is conducive and a firm base to facilitate the flow of business and investment into this resource rich region.
This mainly includes proposals for development that are sustainable and undertaken on a continuous basis, thus bringing in more business and investments in the North East Region and providing market linkages for enhancing economic development. ‘, Dr. Singh informed the august gathering.
Addressing the investors Mr. N K Das, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Assam said that Assam is a state with full of potentials and there is no dearth of resources. He welcomed all the prospective investors to Assam to explore the key potentials area for their investment and assured the gathering that Government of Assam will take sector specific initiatives to avail all sorts of support in developing medium scale industries in all parts of Assam.
Mr. Pradyut Bordoloi, Industry and Power Minister Govt. of Assam in his keynote address started off with a joke that he as minister had been trying to woo the investors from country years all together now. He made a metaphoric statement that the state of Assam have always been like a would be groom and have treated the investors like a would be wedded bride so the state has been able to woo a whopping Rs.20,000 Crores of investment in Assam.
Raising concern over land allocation issue to large scale industries in and around Guwahati, the minister was of the opinion that large scale investors should explore the well connected regions like Nalbari, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Golaghat where land could be allocated for medium and small scale industries as there is no land in and around Guwahati. He appealed investors in construction sector to make model towns like Gurgoan and Noida in greater Guwahati region.
The industry Minister went on to add that Medium and Small Scale Industry are the growth drivers of a state and nation at large and extended warm welcome to all investors in Assam and assured of full support on behalf of Ministry of Industries. Govt. of Assam. He also thanked the Indian Chamber of Commerce for providing platforms for investors in this part of the country and was elated to see the overwhelming response from various sectors.
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