Officials informed that 43 projects out of total 50 investable projects are completely ready and the depatments concerned are in agreement. The remaining seven projects will be given final shape soon. This was stated in a meeting presided over by chief secretary Utpal Kumar Singh to review the preparations for the Investors’ Summit 2018 to be held on October 7-8 in Dehradun.
During the meeting held at the secretariat on Monday, the memorandums of understanding to be signed in the summit were discussed in detail. The Chief Secretary asked the officials of the departments concerned to remain in touch with those willing to invest. He, further, said that the processes of MoUs has started and projects for investments should be signed.
He said that contact should be maintained with those businessmen who showed interest in investing in Uttarakhand during ‘G2B’ (Government to Business) programme and road shows held earlier. A large number of businessmen have shown interest in investing in Uttarakhand with investments amounting to about Rs 20,000 crore in next two years expected to be finalised.
It was informed that Mahindra and Mahindra, Adani Group, ITC, Reliance and other big companies have sent their proposals. In this regard departmental secretaries have been given responsibilities and seven groups have been formed for the purpose.
The State’s tourism secretary Dilip Jawalkar has been given the charge of tourism and hospitality, ropeway, parking, film shooting, entertainment and theme parks. Similarly, the agriculture secretary D Senthil Pandian and animal husbandry secretary R Meenakshi Sundaram have been given the charge of agriculture, forestry, organic food processing, floriculture, herbal, aromatic plants and distillery, cooperatives, animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries. The information technology secretary RK Sudhanshu has been given charge of IT, rural BPO and bio-technology. As AYUSH secretary Sudhanshu along with Health secretary Nitesh Jha have ben given the charge of health care, AYUSH, wellness, pharma and senior citizen living.
Education Secretary Bhupinder Kaur Aulakh and skill development additional secretary Iqbal Ahmed have been given the charge of education, skill development and start up innovation, industry principal secretary Manisha Panwar has been given the charge of manufacturing (automobile, FMCG, textiles, apparel, engineering, plastic, electrical and electronics and forest related industry).
Detailed discussion on proposals of investments were held with departmental secretaries during the meeting.
