Gujarat delegation’s Moscow visit highly successful:GoG

Vibrant-Gujarat-Moscow


Ahmedabad, 3 September 2014

The Government of Gujarat has today in a note described the visit of the Indian delegation to Moscow highly successful.

A note states: With a view to promote the forthcoming 7th edition of Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit-2015, a Gujarat Government’s delegation led by Mr. G C Murmu, IAS, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, left for Moscow on August 31 on a 7-day entourage programme, during which it would be visiting Russia, Poland and Czech Republic. Mr. Hemant Desai, President – Reliance Industries Ltd, Mr. R S Sodhi, MD, AMUL, Mr. Zarir Langrana, COO, Tata Chemicals, Mr. Mahendra Patel, CMD, Mamata Machinery, Mr. Kishor Virani, Managing Director, Karp Group, Mr. Philippe Tollini, Larsen & Toubro and others are part of the delegation.

On the first-day of its tour the delegation organised a Road-Show in Moscow. The Road-Show was jointly organised by iNDEXTb, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) (National Partner) and KPMG (Knowledge Partners). The Show had evoked an overwhelming response from the local Industry with attracting participation from more than 140 Industry Members.

Mr. Sandeep Arya, Deputy Chief of Commission, Embassy of India welcomed the delegates at the Road show. Mr. Nikolay Korolev, Vice Governor of Astrakhan Region also shared his thoughts on making business with Gujarat and also recalled the visit of then Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi to Astrakhan. He also requested that Mr. Modi should revisit Astrakhan in the near future.

On this occasion, Mr. Murmu gave a detailed presentation on Vibrant Gujarat-2015 to be held in Gandhinagar in January, next year. He also invited the local industrial delegates to visit the Vibrant Gujarat in January 2015. In response, the Vice Governor of Astrakhan assured to bring a delegation at Vibrant Gujarat-2015 event.

The members of visiting Gujarati delegation also held various B2B meetings with companies such as Sibur, Sistema, Rosoboronexport, Rosneft, Rusnano, Alrosa, Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Russian Federation and others.

Mr. P S Raghavan, Ambassador of India to Russian Federation hosted the Indian delegation along with the around 50 Industry Representatives. The delegation was also hosted by Sergei Cheryomin, Minister of Moscow City Government, Head of Department of Foreign Economic and International Affairs Moscow along with the delegation from Moscow Chamber & Industry.

The Tartarstan Investment Development Industry President also confirmed of bringing a High Level Delegation to Vibrant Gujarat 2015.