Delegates from 120
countries attend 6th Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit-2013
“VGGSI emerges as incubator of innovators and
entrepreneurship and not just a global convergence of investors’ destination”
“Convergence of Scale-Skill-Speed as 3 pillars of
development”
“Gujarat maintains its high
growth rate despite global recession”
– Narendra Modi
Gandhinagar,(Gujarat-India) Friday: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi
today said that the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit (VGGIS) should
send a strong and positive message of converting global challenges of the 21st
Century into opportunities for change and forging partnership between knowledge
and technology.
Inaugurating the mega event to a grand spectacle at the
majestic Mahatma Mandir premises here, he said the biennial event has over
years emerged as an incubator of innovators and entrepreneurship, and not just
a convergence of investors’ destination. It served as a model of development
and human welfare for the policy makers. The event demonstrated Gujarat’s capacity to convert dreams for global
development into reality.
The sixth version of Gujarat
Government’s flagship mega event is being attended by top functionaries of
governments, captains of industries and investors, management experts,
dignitaries and delegates from 120 countries.
Extending a warm welcome to all, Mr. Modi said that Gujarat’s initiative in staging this global event should
bring the world closer, encouraging collective wisdom and cross-cultural
partnership for a brighter future of the mankind.
“There was a time when Gujarati people used to go abroad and
make the foreign land their home. Now, in 21st century, it is Gujarat’s
endeavor to create such an atmosphere that entire world come here to make this
land their home”, the Chief Minister said.
He said that the ideology of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’
(The world is a family) is coming true in Gujarat as the participants from all
over the world have converged in the summit and that too when the state is
celebrating Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary.
In a short span of merely a decade the Global Summit of Gujarat has
taken a shape of a global event. The Japan
and Canada
have become country partners and the many developed countries have given a new
height and repute to this summit by participating in it. India’s biggest global
trade show, spreading over in one lakh square meter of area, has been the major
attraction that is showcasing the products from around the world, he said.
“Today when all parts of the world are reeling under adverse
effects of global slowdown, Gujarat has
animated to spread a positive image to the world economy through the medium of
global summit. The inherent entrepreneurial spirit of Gujarat
coupled with the state government’s proactive good-governance policies have a
proven record of giving results”, said the Chief Minister.
Mr.Modi said that his government is committed to making
available the world-class infrastructural facilities in the state. The state
has undertaken constructing of world-class investment region and smart cities. Gujarat has come up with big-scale projects in all the
sectors such as ports, roads, broadband connectivity, rail, logistics,
communication network, transport, health, education and tourism.
Terming the ‘Scale, Skill and Speed’ as the three pillars
which are required for the development of modern world Mr.Modi said, “We should
collectively strive to build a beautiful world for the future generations using
these three pillars.”
“History teaches that the economies based on exploitation of
a group of people never succeed. Instead we need to aim for a growth which is a
result of participation from the deprived classes and the result of intelligent
use of natural resources. This summit will show a way of creating
exploitation-less economy”, he said.
Along with a natural advantage of its geographical location,
Gujarat has been successful in marking its
name on the world map through its proactive policies, world-class
infrastructural policies and usage of latest technology. Gujarat has raised
itself beyond the limits of development, he said.
Mr.Modi said that in the coming years, Gujarat
desires to widen greatly the scale of small industries and manufacturing
sector. “We are also equipping the youths with skills essential in 21st
century. Gujarat will prove to be a fertile land for all those who want to
settle here in the want of fulfilling their development dreams”, said the Chief
Minister.
Earlier in the morning, the Chief Minister inaugurated an
exhibition on the life and times of Man of the Millennium Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi, titled ‘Gandhi to Mahatma’ ‘My Life is My Message’ at the venue of the
global meet.
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