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After criss-crossing India as “Mentor-on-Road” to encourage entrepreneurship, leading trade and management consultant Jagat Shah, will now embark on a similar journey in the US in June 2017.
Supported by the US Commercial Services (USCS), US Department of Commerce and US-India Importers’ Council (USIIC), the Ahmedabad-based consultantwill undertake the 15,400-km, 78-day-long drive across America, he told BusinessLine here on Saturday.
In 2015-16, Shah undertook a 9,500-km-long journey across 24 States and 35 cities of India, encouraging entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs to understand their challenges in ease of doing business and presented a report to the Central government with possible solutions for consideration as part of its “Make in India” drive.
On January 10, during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017, the USCS and the US Department of Commerce will launch the Mentor on Road-USA website at a reception hosted by USIIC here. More than 100 American companies are participating in the Vibrant Gujarat event.
The Mentor on Road–USA is a road drive planned by Shah, who is the founder of Global Network and Cluster Pulse firms that offer consultancy. He is also the Foreign Representative of the Government of Manitoba (Canada) in India for trade and investment.
During his drive across the US, Shah will be meeting American SMEs, start-ups, women- run businesses and institutions, corporates for CSR activities and Indian Diaspora in a bid to connect them to businesses and CSR activities in India.
For his Mentor-on-Road drive, he had converted his SUV into a mobile office, equipped with all the necessary gadgets for instant communication.
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