By IANS
Bhopal : As many as 309 investors have agreed to participate in the two-day Investors’ Meet, slated to be inaugurated at Jabalpur Feb 15 by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
“The state government has invited over 700 industrialists from within and outside the country. Of them, 309 have confirmed their participation,” Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi said.
This is the third investors’ meet organised by the state government in the past two years. The earlier meets in Khajuraho and Indore had attracted Rs.1,050 billion ($26.5 billion) and Rs.1,142.6 billion ($28.8 billion) respectively.
The industries department has also organised a Vikas Pradarshani (exhibition on development) at the historical Garrison Ground to display the development of state.
“Big business houses, including JP Group, Prism Cement, Headbarg Cement, Maihar Cement, Flouriana Concept Marbles, OPEX Housing, ACC besides the State Bank of India, Jabalpur Development Authority, Jabalpur Municipal Corp, Agriculture University, small scale Industry and health department, will have their stalls at the exhibition,” said Vishnoi.
A special theme pavilion is also being made at the venue of the meet to showcase the progress and investment opportunities in the state. Information about all established industrial centres and available infrastructure would be available here.
The participants include Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumarmanglam Birla, MP Birla Group Director Harsh Lodha, director of MSP Steel – Kolkata, Manish Agrawal, SPJ Steel and Minerals Director S.R. Pati, Euro Ceramic Mumbai’s Nancy Shah, Prism Cement Director Manoj Chhabara, Rashmi Cements Kolkata Chairman Sanjay Patvari and Abhijeet Cement Managing Director Abhijeet Jaiswal.
Others who have confirmed their participation include Adhunik Corp Ltd Managing Director Mahesh Kumar Agrawal, Sanghi Infrastructure Ltd Gujarat Executive Director D.B.N. Rao, RDM Care New Delhi Director Dilvindar Singh Narang, Abhay Kumar Mishra of Ammar MGF, Nilesh Mistri of Zee Group and many of other renowned company directors and representatives would also be present.
Sanjay Nagarkar of Globax Biotech, Hong Kong, will also participate in the meet with 14 other investors from Hong Kong.