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India Investment Summit to be inaugurated by union finance minister Arun Jaitley
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IBNS) Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley will inaugurate the two-day India Investment Summit 2016 to be held in New Delhi on Feb 4 and 5 while Union Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu will deliver the opening address during the first session.
H.H. Sheikh Hamid Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Managing Director, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority will also deliver a Special Address during the inaugural session
The first session is titled ‘Current Status, Outlook and Investment Opportunities in Developing Urban Infrastructure’.
Dr. Nandita Chatterjee, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Alleviation, Dr. Samir Sharma, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development and Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State Bank of India will also speak at the inaugural session.
Other sessions on the first day include ‘Current Status Outlook and Investment Opportunities in Power and Renewable Energy’ to be addressed by Pradip Kumar Pujari, Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India and Shri Upendra Tripathi, Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India among others.
Another session on ‘Current Status Outlook and Investment Opportunities in Road Transport , Highways and Ports’ will be addressed by Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Government of India. Other speakers for this session include Rajive Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Shipping, Government of India, Sanjay Mitra, Secretary, Department of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India and Raghav Chandra, Chairman, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).
The second day of the Summit will start with a session on Regulatory Architecture to be addressed by Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Finance, Government of India along with Dr. Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, H.R. Khan, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India and S. Raman, Member, Security and Exchange Board of India among others.
During the state sessions, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Gujarat will showcase the investment opportunities in the respective states.
The Concluding Session will be addressed by Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister for Railways, highlighting ‘Investment Opportunities in Railway Sector’. Other participants during the session will include A.K. Mital, Chairman, Indian Railway Board and S. Mookerjee, Financial Commissioner, Railway Board among others.
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