The two-day Progressive Punjab Investors Summit will kick start at Mohali today. The Aam Aadmi Party’s maiden Investors Summit will see the party presenting Punjab as one of the most promising investment destinations in the country. The Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann himself had been visiting several states in India to invite investors to the state.
After meeting the officials of German Agro Company BWRE Global on Wednesday, Mann tweeted that this is his government’s first investors summit and several investors from many countries will be participating and investing in the state.
“Our government's first @invest_punjab summit is going to be held tomorrow in Punjab. Investors from several countries are taking part in it. Today, the officials of Germany's agro-company @BWRE_Global came to meet and assured of making investment in Punjab,” said Mann in a tweet in Punjabi.
According to official information, the theme of the summit is 'Invest in the Best' and there will be nine sessions on key areas including agri-food processing, textiles, healthcare, education, tourism, information technology and start-ups.
It may be recalled that Mann had visited many cities including Chennai, Hyderabad, and Mumbai and even gone to Germany to seek investments. He earlier had said that the summit would go a long way in ensuring holistic industrial development of the state.
Earlier this month, the AAP government in Punjab had introduced a new industrial policy, promising ease of doing business, fiscal and non-fiscal incentives and also focusing on key areas like infrastructure, micro, small and medium enterprises, large enterprises, innovation and.
As per the policy, the state will also allow the setting up of dedicated country-specific integrated industrial townships to attract investment by allowing the infrastructure and other norms of the country.
