Over 3 lakh people including 10000 foreign delegates to participate in first ever Global Patidar Business Summit

Ahmedabad:

Over 300,000 people of Patidar Samaj or community as well as 10,000 business delegates from 32 foreign countries are likely to participate in the first ever Global Patidar Business Summit which is being organized taking a cue from the successful Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit by a leading outfit of the Patidar or Patel community in the state, Sardardham Vishwa Patidar Kendra based here and is slated to be held at the same venue Mahatma Mandir in capital Gandhinagar from January 5 to 7 next year.

The Patidar outfit whose trustees are many big names of this politically and economically strong community in the state including Lavjibhai Daliya Badshah today organized an event here to plan out the summit.

The Summit will consist of convention, exhibition, business seminar, B2B meetings and job-fair. The objectives of the summit included to support linking of small, medium and big industries of the Patidar Samaj at the local as well as global level, to prepare new entrepreneurs in the Patidar Samaj and to become helpful to them as well as to provide respectable employments to the educated youths.

Today’s event was also attended and addressed by Swami Dharmbandhuji of the Vaidic Ashram. Briefing the attendees about the detail information of the Global Patidar Business Summit – 2017, Gagji Sutariya, president of the Sardardham, said that the samaj has had organized many religious as well as social programmes, but the programme like this for uplifting the Samaj economically, which aims at stepping towards prosperity, would become an historical step for Gujarat as well as the country. On behalf of the Sardardham he invited all the people of the Patidar Samaj to participate in the summit. Later, the organizers had made details presentations of the event to brief the attendees about the event. The Ahmedabad Patidar Samaj had responded very well to this developmental plan.

The summit is expected that over 300,000 people of Patidar Samaj as well as 10,000 business delegates from 32 foreign countries would participate in the event. The Summit will also have over 500 exhibition stalls representing various industries. In addition to these, in the convention many speakers will provide their priceless guidance and insight on the issue of economical development of the samaj. Above all, the delegates participating in the convention will get opportunities to make interaction with corporate world. In the event, with a view to provide business network facilities to the people of the Patidar Samaj a special B2B portal has also been launched.

For the first time ‘The Patidar Udhyog Ratna Award’ would be announced during the Global Patidar Business Summit. The Patidar Udhyog Ratna Awards will be conferred to various Patidar Industrialist under various categories. On the occasion, a special ‘Coffee Table Book’ will also be released, he said.

During the Summit, many business seminars have been organized on various subjects. In these seminars the attending delegates will receive business guidance from the leading industrialists as well as speakers of the Samaj or the community. A special seminar has also been organized in the Summit to guide the women of the community on employment opportunities to them. During the Business Seminar the delegates will be facilitated to ink MOU for mutual benefits.

Through pre-registered B2B meetings the manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, service providers and raw – material suppliers will get the opportunities for the commercial as well as business partnerships. In addition to these, the job – fair has been organized in a such way that the industries will get the opportunities to employ competent, skilled staffers; at the same time the efficient youths will get chance to seize the best employment opportunities. More than 100 leading companies will attend the job – fair.

Sutaria said that there were three main goals of the first edition of the summit. ‘Creating new entrepreneurs among Patidars by guidance from veteran Industrialists of the community. Making arrangements for large-scale training and absorption of educated Patidar youths in various Industrial units run by the Industrialists of the community. And the third one was providing opportunity to small and medium scale industries in the state to connect with big global players,’ he said. Sutaria,however, clarified that the event won’t be exclusive for Patidar community and others could also freely participate in it.

All these programmes have been organized in such a way that they benefit the Patidar Samaj economically.

Today’s event organized in Patidar dominated Nicol area here was attended by over 2,000 leaders and industrialists of the Patidar community from Odhav, Naroda, Narol, Kathwada GIDCs’ office bearers, reputed builders from the eastern areas as well as. Kantibhai Gadhiya,. Rambhai Sheladiya, Hareshbhai Moradiya, Madhubhai Dobariya, Ghanshyambhai Bhalala, Mavjibhai Dasbhai Kakani, Maganbhai Ramani, Ravjibhai Vasani, G. B. Sojitra, Ajaybhai Shreedhar, and team-members of the Sardardham, T. G. Zalawadiya, Sureshbhai Patel, Shankarbhai Patel, Natubhai Patel, Jasubhai Patel and trustees and donors of the Sardardham and Kelavanidham and others.