Chhattisgarh Government SIGNS MOU WITH STANFORD UNIVERSITY The Chhattisgarh Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Stanford University to work in the areas of teaching, research, exchange of faculty and students. The MoU aimed to promote campaigns focussed on Rheumatic Heart Disease to educate State’s 28 million people, officials
informed. Katherine States Burke, Deputy Director, Centre for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, signed on behalf of Stanford University during the tour of Chief Minister Raman Singh to United States of America.
Notably, after successfully organising investors’ seminars in New York and Chicago, the State Government delegation moved to San Francisco Bay Area, wherein the State Government organised a Chhattisgarh Investors Seminar in collaboration with USIBC and TiE Global.
In the investment seminar, Chief Minister Raman Singh addressed audience and showcased Chhattisgarh vision in a significant manner and provided the understanding about Chhattisgarh key infrastructure projects and invited corporates and NRIs from San Franciscoto visit Chhattisgarh and explore business opportunities in the State.
The State Government also signed an MoU with M/s Wadhwani Operating Foundation in providing training and support to aspiring entrepreneurs, to develop city based startup and SME ecosystems by leveraging Network of Mentors, Investors and Incubators through National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) and skill development and employment to the youths.
Ajay Kela, Executive Director, signed the MoU on behalf of Wadhwani Operating Foundation.
The State Government also signed MoU with Spinta Global Accelerator, a force multiplier for startup for setting up a global accelerator in Chhattisgarh. Spinta Accelerator works with professionals and budding student entrepreneurs enhance their business ideas with our domain and technology expertise to provide maximum returns on their investments.
Prashant Parekh, CEO, Spinta Global Accelerator, signed MoU on behalf of Spinta Global Accelerator.
During the Investors seminar in San Francisco, Vivek Dhand, Chief Secretary, Government of Chhattisgarh, gave the opening address and highlighted key sectors where Chhattisgarh and San Francisco can collaborate.
Aman Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, IT, Government of Chhattisgarh, gave the presentation on Credible Chhattisgarh: An Incredible Launch pad for your IT & ITeS business to the audience and highlighted opportunities of IT and ITeS sectors for investments in Chhattisgarh and in Naya Raipur, The Smart City.
Also more than 25 Chhattisgarh professionals working in San Francisco met the Chief Minister in San Francisco.
The State delegation had a one-to-one meeting with Munish Khetrapal, Managing Director, Solutions and Product Management; Raju Indukuri, Chairman, mtuity and Aaron Simkin, General Manager, mtuity; Hemant Gandhi, Senior Vice President and Global Head, KPIT; Prakash Iyer, Vice President, Software Architecture & Strategy, Trimble Navigation Limited and discussed investment opportunities and areas of collaborations in terms of Information Technology, Healthcare, Solutions for smart city, Electric vehicles, Knowledge transfer, clean energy managementwith the State Government.
During the day, State delegation led by Chief Minister Raman Singh visited Google campus at Mountain view, Silicon Valley, California and met Anjali Joshi, Vice President, Product Management, Google and Minal Mehta, Group Product Manager, Google and discussed in detail on Chhattisgarh’s collaboration with Google on Healthcare, IT and Education sectors.
Singh invited Google officials to the State to further discuss on these areas of collaboration. The State delegation also visited 500 startups campus. The 500 startups is an early stage venture fund and seed accelerator. Chhattisgarh team met members of 500 startups and discussed on startup ecosystem for Chhattisgarh.
It may be recalled that US Ambassador to India Richard R Verma called on Chief Minister Raman Singh at his office in the Mantralaya in Naya Raipur in October this year.
The Ambassador during his meeting with the Chief Minister said he would encourage the American investments in higher education, Innovation, Smart City, pharmaceutical companies, IT and medical field.
Singh also gave a detailed presentation of immense investment potential for American companies in Chhattisgarh.
Present on the occasion were Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, Information Technology Department Principal Secretary Aman Kumar Singh, Industry Department Secretary Subodh Kumar Singh, Public Relations Department Secretary Santosh Misra, American Consulate General Thomas Wajda and several senior officers.
It may be recalled that American and Chinese firms as well as other domestic industrial groups had evinced keen interest in investing in various sectors of Chhattisgarh in February this year.
Notably, a delegation of American Chamber of Commerce and US-India Business Council led by American Consul General Thomas Vajda had also met Chief Minister Raman Singh in Mumbai.
During the second day of the ‘Make in India’ event in Mumbai, the Chief Minister had invited top investors to invest in Chhattisgarh.
During his discussion with the American and Chinese delegations, Singh had assured the delegates of providing every possible support for setting up industrial projects in Chhattisgarh.
Commerce and Industry Minister Amar Agrawal, Chairman of Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation (CSIDC) Chhagan Mundra and Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand were also present.
The American delegation had evinced interest for making investments in road sector, modernisation of Railway stations, airports, warehouses, export of frozen agricultural products, water and sewerage treatment in Naya Raipur, Information Technology and Start-ups in Chhattisgarh.
The Chief Minister also had discussions with more than 50 investors during the last two days and invited them to invest in Chhattisgarh. This included Managing Director of Lanco Solar Rajkumar Rai, Director of ITC Limited Sanjeev Puri, Kirloskar Group Chairman Sanjay Kirloskar, Aavesh Jain of Ruchi Soya, Pradeep Naiyyar of Autodesh, Darshan Hira Nandani of Hira Nandani Group, renowned Architect Hafeez Contractor, Goldy Behl of Rose Audio Visual, Praveen Chheda of Sugal and Damaani Group, Pradeep Agrawal, Arun Lakhani of Vishwaraj Infastructure, and Vivek Gupta of GEPL Capital.
In order to explore potential areas of partnership, the delegation was very keen to lay the groundwork for US companies on partnering the State and industrial units in Chhattisgarh, under Centre’s ‘Make in India’ initiative and wanted to leverage on the State’s strengths in “Ease of Doing Business”, officials stated.
A delegation from the same office, led by US Consul General Thomas L Vajda had visited the State last year on December 9 and this was the follow-up visit on the agenda of promoting Chhattisgarh as preferred investment destination in India to US-based companies operating in India or intending to operate in India.
An American delegation led by Consul for Political and Economic Affairs Raj Wadhwani and Ayesha Khan, Political Specialist of the Consulate General of USA in India called on senior officials of the Commerce & Industry Department of Chhattisgarh during September month last year.
In order to explore potential areas of partnership, the delegation was very keen to lay the groundwork for US companies on partnering the State and industrial units in Chhattisgarh, under Centre’s ‘Make in India’ initiative and wanted to leverage on the State’s strengths in “Ease of Doing Business”, officials stated.
In a meeting at the Mantralaya with Subodh Singh, Secretary, Commerce & Industries, Wadhwani congratulated the former and his team for emerging as one of the top States in India as per the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking exercise carried out by the Government of India and validated by the World Bank.
He also expressed his keenness in promoting the State to the US-based investors for considering it as a preferred investment destination.
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