Capt to meet Ambanis, Mahindra in Mumbai
CHANDIGARH:Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh will begin his three-day trip to Mumbai as part of the ‘Invest Punjab’ initiative on Monday.
Accompanied by a high-profile official delegation, the CM will meet the who’s who of the Indian industry, beginning with Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Monday evening.
He will also be meeting ICICI Bank Ltd chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD) Chanda Kochhar, Goldman Sachs chairman Sonjoy Chatterjee, Godrej Group chairman Adi Godrej and KPMG India chairman and CEO Arun K Kumar the same day.
On Tuesday, Captain would meet Reliance Industries Ltd chairman and MD Mukesh Ambani and Reliance ADAG chairman Anil Ambani.
He is also slated to hold intensive discussions with RPG Group chairman Harsh Goenka, Hindustan Unilever Ltd CEO and MD Sanjiv Mehta and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd chairman Anand Mahindra later in the day.
Other business leaders who are scheduled to call upon the CM in the course of the day include L&T director and executive vice-president Shailendra N Roy and Hinduja Group chairman Ashok P Hinduja.
The programme agenda also includes meetings with the organisation of pharmaceutical producers of India and an Ashoka University delegation, besides a roundtable with industry leaders.
The delegation also included finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, irrigation and power minister Rana Gurjit Singh, senior adviser to chief minister Lt Gen Tejinder Singh Shergill (retd), media adviser to CM Raveen Thukral and chief principal secretary to chief minister Suresh Kumar.
Others accompanying the CM are secretary (political) Karanpal Singh Sekhon, principal secretary, industries, Anirudh Tewari, Punjab Bureau of Industrial Promotion CEO DK Tiwari and additional CEO Shruti Singh.
“The Punjab government, led by chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, is committed to streamlining the systems in the state to facilitate hassle-free industrial development, while wooing investors, in an industry-friendly environment,” said an official spokesperson on Sunday.
THREEDAY VISIT BEGINS TODAY; CM TO MEET TATA SONS CHAIRMAN N CHANDRASEKARAN ; MANPREET BADAL, RANA GURJIT ALSO PART OF DELEGATION
ROHTAK The police have registered a case of rape against a youth here for allegedly raping a mentally challenged woman at Rewari railway station.
The crime was committed on Wednesday and it came to light when local vendors on the railway station heard cries of a girl from inside a washroom of the general compartment of a train and informed the government railway police (GRP).
When the police forced open the door, they found a man with the woman inside.
The police said the woman, around 25-year-old, has not been able to give any details of the incident.