: Lucknow all set to host Global Investors Summit #FinanceIndia #StockMarketNEWS #Business Press Trust of India Lucknow Uttar Pradesh’s capital is being decked up for the three-day Global Investors

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Press Trust of India

Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh’s capital is being decked up for the three-day Global Investors Summit that would be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday.

The 10-12 February event is expected to be attended by several ministers of the Union and the State government and a host of leading industrialists.

According to the information provided by the state government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and State Industrial Development Minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi as well as industrialists Mukesh Ambani, K. Chandrasekaran, Kumar Mangalam Birla and Anand Mahindra will address the inaugural session of the summit.

Union ministers including Rajnath Singh, Ashwini Vaishnav, G Kishan Reddy, R. K. Singh, Smriti Zubin Irani and Pashupati Kumar Paras, will attend different sessions on Friday, according to the statement.

Besides Prime Minister Modi, President Droupadi Murmu and over 15 cabinet ministers, including finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, health minister Mansukh Mandaviya, women and child development minister Smriti Irani, and transport minister Nitin Gadkari are expected to attend the event.

“We are hopeful that a maximum number of representatives from leading industries will attend the summit,” said Abhishek Prakash, CEO of Invest UP, the key department which is responsible for holding the UPGIS (UP Global Investors Summit).

More than 300 renowned industrialists are expected to participate.

According to the statement, the list of participants include Mukesh Aghi (USISPF), Swati Dalal (Abbott Nutrition), Navneet Agarwal (Agarwal Packers and Movers), Mahesh Sugru (Tata Motors), Uday Sinha (Ekana Group), Adil Zaidi (Ernst & Young), Dheeraj Kapoor (Flipkart), Dhruv Galgotia (Galgotia University), Dinesh Gupta (Green Ply), Rajeev Garg (Haldiram Group), Sanjeev Kakkar (Indian Oil Corporation), Pradeep Dixit (ITC), Ashish Agarwal (JBM Group), Amar Sinha (Radico Khaitan), Daniel Bircher (Zurich Airport Asia), JongBum Park (President and CEO, Samsung Southwest Asia), Pradeep Kumar Gupta (Sharda University), Kailash Chandra Jhanwar (Ultra Tech Cement) and Jagdish Gulati (United Group).

The event is important for the state which initially set a target to attract investment proposals of Rs 10 lakh crore at the UPGIS-2023, and later revised it to Rs 17. 3 lakh crore.

Almost all of the UP Cabinet ministers, including deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, will be present at the mega event.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will address the gathering on the first day. The welcome address will be given by Uttar Pradesh minister for industry Nand Gopal Nandi.