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CM woos global investors, aims to help Karnataka rural economy
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SME Times News Bureau | 23 Jan, 2020
Showcasing Karnataka at the
World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos in Switzerland, Chief Minister B.S.
Yediyurappa is eyeing global firms to create jobs through investment in
the southern state, an official said on Wednesday.
In one-on-one
meetings with global enterprises on the margins of the event,
Yeddiyurappa said he was looking for investments in sectors that would
help the state farmers and its rural economy, as the manufacturing and
services sectors were doing better than the agriculture sector.
"We
want investments in projects that will boost the state's economy,
provide jobs to thousands of youths and raise incomes of lakhs of
farmers and other rural folk," said Yediyurappa.
"The Chief
Minister has urged global investors and multinationals to invest in
Karnataka in sectors that will create more jobs in the state's rural and
semi-urban areas," state Additional Secretary P. Ravikumar told IANS in
an email from Davos.
A 10-member team from Karnataka is
participating in the five-day WEF summit since Monday. It is part of the
Indian delegation led by Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush
Goyal.
The Chief Minister invited 2000 Watt company to invest in
the state's agro-food processing and products for value addition and
better remuneration to growers and farmers.
"The Swiss firm said
it had technology and resources to invest in food clusters across rural
areas where over 60 per cent of the state's 70-million population live,"
said the senior official.
Scientist and academician Andreas
Binkert told the Chief Minister that his company (2000 Watt) would
provide farm techniques to grow healthy food in the southern state and
then market them after value addition.
2000 Watt's founding
partner Madhav Bhagwat explained to the state delegation the concept of
smart cities for improving the quality of people living in Tier-1 and
Tier-2 cities across the state.
As an expert in carbon-neutral
smart township development projects, Watt signed a pact with the Pune
Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) in western
Maharashtra.
Global auto major Volvo president Hanka Angwel also
interacted with the Chief Minister and his delegation on the company's
Indian subsidiary expansion at Hoskote near east Bengaluru.
Haryana's
Gurugram-based ReNew Power expressed interest to set up solar power
plants in the state's arid lands, especially in the northern districts
like Kalaburagi, Koppal, Raichur and Vijayapura.
"We are planning
to set up power storage batteries and gadgets to store power produced
in excess of the state's demand," ReNew chief executive Samanth Sinha
told Yediyurappa and sought speedy approvals for proposed businesses in
the state.
"Global firms and investors told the state delegation
to make land acquisition hassle-free by amending relevant laws, which
are archaic and lead to delays," noted the senior official.
Assuring
the investors of all help in ease-of-doing business, Yediyurappa told
them that he was ready to go the extra mile to help them invest across
the state sectors.
State Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar,
Chief Secretary T.M. Vijayabhaskar, Additional Principal Secretary
Industries Gourav Gupta and IT-BT Secretary V. Ramanareddy were present
at the investors meet.
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