Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Mar 13, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, Mar 13, 2003 |
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Industry & Economy
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Industry Associations FICCI officials meet Modi Vinod Mathew
GANDHINAGAR, March 12 TWO of FICCI's top guns, Dr Amit Mitra and Dr A.C. Muthiah, called on the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, on Wednesday and held prolonged discussions. Today's meeting between Mr Modi and the FICCI, was ostensibly to declare mutual trust in each other and came barely a week after the CII Director-General, Mr Tarun Das, called on Mr Modi and apologised to him publicly for having `hurt his feelings'. Although FICCI is describing the meeting as a courtesy call, it sounded positive about carrying on from where it left off on February 10, 2002, the last day of the `Resurgent Gujarat' event where it was an event partner. If the resurgent meet was about Gujarat declaring to the world its economic resilience in having overcome the earthquake trauma of the previous year, FICCI now seems to selling the idea to the Gujarat Government that it needs to declare its resurgence once again. Especially so, after the stick it received following the riots that broke out only a few days after the resurgent meet. In February last, the services of TCS were roped in to shortlist 102 business enterprises for the State Government to showcase to the world. With the ground reality on Gujarat's investment climate having changed drastically since then, questions are also being asked about the successful conversion of the projected figures into hard-core investment. It is in this backdrop that FICCI met Mr Modi and reportedly expressed its keenness to hold such investment marts in Gujarat on a regular basis and has presented a plan for the first such, in collaboration with the Indonesian industry. The FICCI team also suggested that the State look at new areas such as clusters of biotechnology villages rather than stand-alone parks and advised the Government to look seriously at the tourism sector by leveraging the 1,600-km coast line with cruise linkages with other parts of the country. The State Government has termed the meeting with FICCI brass `fruitful'.
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