1800 delegates to attend Vibrant summit
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- Monday, 07 January 2013 22:14
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Gujarat Global News Network, Gandhinagar
More than 1800 delegates from 107 countries are expected to participate in Vibrant Gujarat summit beginning on January 12.
The event a biennial affair has attracted many countries and UK and USA will be marking their presence. In addition about 50,000 delegates from 22 states are expected to take part in the summit.
The focus this year is small and medium enterprises, Principal Secretary, Industries and Mines M Sahu said. To a question about expected MoUs he said that it was jugglery of figures. “But it would be more than last summit”, he said. He said that the summit would be around subjects of sustainability, innovation, youth and skill development, knowledge sharing and networking.
Delegations from Canada, Japan, USA, UK and UAE will attend the summit. While some of the countries with higher participation include Sweden, Finland, Italy, Singapore, China, Denmark, Netherlands, Israel, Poland, Russia, Morocco, Australia and others.’
To provide a thrust to knowledge-based partnerships which the government is focused on, there are various events where partnerships have been formed with countries that excel in that sector. Like the International Conference of Academic Institutions (ICAI) has partnered with International Institute of Education, British Council and World Bank; the seminar on green and efficient water management has partnered with Royal Danish Embassy; seminar on technology solutions for environmental sustainability has partnered with the government of Victoria, Australia; seminar on green innovation has partnerships with Planning Commission of India, Asian Development Bank, International Finance Corporation; seminar on ports and port-led development has partnered with Netherland, seminar on developing integrated, smart and sustainable cities has partnered with Japan; seminar on global financial hub with the UKIBC; Youth Convention has partnered with Australia India Business Council, Sahu said.
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