By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net
Bhopal: The students of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore have been assigned an important role in the Global Investors Summit-2007 to be held on October 26-27 at Indore. A special workshop for these students was held at Indore in this regard on Wednesday.
Addressing the workshop the Minister for PWD Kailash Vijaywargiya reportedly asked the students to consider themselves part of this prestigious event. They should highlight Madhya Pradesh and Indore in an effective manner. Divisional Commissioner, B.P. Singh; Director of IIM, Indore Dr. S.P. Parashar and Collector, Indore Vivek Agrawal were also present at the workshop.
The Minister said that the summit would afford a very good opportunity for the management students to interact with the achievers of their respective filed and learn from their experience. He advised the tudents to keep abreast of the latest in infrastructure development and energy sector in the state. He informed that a time bound action plan has been drawn up for the Memorandums of Understanding to be signed during the summit. Good industrial atmosphere,industrial and peace loving people, rich natural resources, geographical location and investor friendly policy of the state government are the U.S.P. of Madhya Pradesh. The team of young management students should apprise the investors coming from within and outside the country of these specialties of the state.
The Divisional Commissioner Singh reportedly asked the management students to have full complete information about hydel power projects of Omkareshwar, Indira Sagar around Indore, infrastructure development as well as the S.E.Z. at Indore.
Additional Secretary, Information Technology, Anurag Shrivastava spoke in detail on the IT policy of the state government and the initiatives taken to promote e-governance in the state. Satish Pendharkar of TRIFAC informed about the objectives of the summit. Managing Director of M.P. Finance Corporation Mrs. Smita Gate also spoke on the occasion.
Earlier, the Director of IIM, Indore, Dr. Parashar delivered the welcome address and threw light on the objects of the workshop. ([email protected])