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Mann exhorts Hyderabad business honchos to invest in Punjab
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday exhorted the captains of industry to invest in Punjab and ‘grow with the best’ as it is the most “conducive state for investments and expansion”.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday exhorted the captains of industry to invest in Punjab and ‘grow with the best’ as it is the most “conducive state for investments and expansion”.
The chief minister during his visit to Hyderabad held detailed parleys with MD Hartex Rubber Varun Surekha, CEO Cancer Centers of America, India Smitha Raju, Executive Director, Cancer Centers of America, Rajesh Manthena, Executive Director, Narayan Group of Educational Institutions, Puneeth Kothappa, Executive Director South, GMR Group, S G K Kishore, Executive Director Annapurna Studios Supriya Y, President Wonderla M Sivadas, COO Biological E Lakshminarayana Neti, Executive Director and CFO, Laurus Labs, VV Ravi Kumar, CEO, DEFTeam, Gurpreet Singh and others, according to an official release.
During the interaction, Mann showcased Punjab as a most preferred investment destination in the country and asked the companies to invest in the state. He said the state government is firmly committed for extending fulsome support and cooperation to the industrial groups for setting up their operations in Punjab. “The state has complete communal harmony, peace and amity which have resulted in its overall development and prosperity,” he said, urging the industrialists to make optimum use of this congenial atmosphere backed by excellent infrastructure, power, skilled human resources and best industrial and work culture to spread their business. He said that the pragmatic policies of the state government coupled with industrial peace and state of the art infrastructure provide conducive atmosphere for industrial development.
The CM apprised the industrialists that Punjab is a top achiever in Ease Of Doing Business ranking by Government of India and Invest Punjab has also been rated as top performing investment promotion agency with 100% score. He said the state government was always open for new ideas and innovations to boost up the industrial growth in Punjab. He also extended a warm welcome to the global industrialists to attend the Progressive Punjab Investors’ Summit scheduled for February 23-24, 2023.
Cabinet Minister Anmol Gagan Mann, Additional Chief Secretary to CM A Venu Prasad, Principal Secretary, Industries, Dalip Kumar were among those present.
