The theme of this year’s summit is ‘Global Partnerships for Enduring Growth’. The flagship international event of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is held every year in association with Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India.

Briefing about the objectives and U.P. specific sessions scheduled for this three-day event, Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner (IIDC) of U.P., Anil Kumar Gupta said recently in Lucknow that interactions at this high level networking platform would focus on detailed and direct dialogue with global as well as Indian industrial and business delegations on ways to enable sustained growth for integrated socio-economic development. Overseas ministers, along with business delegations from USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, Russia, Spain and host of other countries from across the world will be participating in this major international conference.

A high level U.P. government delegation, comprising the Chief Secretary and principal secretaries of key departments, will participate actively in this summit. About 83 overseas business delegations have already confirmed the participation.

Gupta, the IIDC has informed the press, “Chief Minister Shri Akhilesh Yadav will himself lead the launch by chairing the special session on ‘Uttar Pradesh – The land of opportunities’ planned on January 28. The Chief Minister is expected to unveil various industry and investment-friendly policies as a package during this summit.”

“It will be an excellent opportunity to apprise the participating global leaders, investors, businesspersons and policy makers about new enterprise and economy enabling policies ushered in by Government of Uttar Pradesh recently across various sectors along with enormous pool of resources and avenues available for investment in Uttar Pradesh,” he further added.

It was informed that the special session on ‘Uttar Pradesh – The land of opportunities’ would be followed by U.P. specific parallel sessions focused on infrastructure, agriculture and food processing, and textiles and leather. Indian industrial giants like HCL, ABG, Jubilant Organosys, Jaypee, Reliance, L&T, Lanco, Samsung, etc. along with respected members from the academia as well as domain experts of industry and economy are likely to be well represented during these sessions. These parallel sessions will be organised on the themes of ‘Uttar Pradesh – On the Highway to Progress, Investment opportunities in infrastructure sector’ and ‘Uttar Pradesh creating investment/entrepreneurship opportunities through Policy Reforms’.

Upcoming premier infrastructure and industrial projects in Uttar Pradesh, like mega leather clusters, IT hubs, mega food parks, dairy projects, roads and expressways, international airports at Agra and Kushinagar, projects under DMIC & DFC, international level cricket stadium, projects pertaining to tourism, etc., will be amply showcased through the theme based presentations.

The State government has prepared an elaborate plan and formed various committees to successfully organise this event with the principal aim of attracting investment and enterprises in Uttar Pradesh.

Kiron Chopra, former Chairman of CII State Council has said that this would be the 19th edition of Partnership Summit. In addition to the inaugural session on ‘Global Partnerships for enduring Growth’, seven plenary sessions will be held during this partnership summit on various topics, including 'The Large Emerging Economies: New Growth Hubs of World', 'The New Emerging Global Economic Order: Role of Developed Nations', 'South Asia Economic Integration: On a New Path of Progress and Hope', 'Rapidly Emerging Global Value Chains: Where Do Developing Economies Fit In', 'RCEP: Towards Creating the World's Largest Trading Block', 'India and Africa: Redefining Partnerships in the 21st Century', “Rebuilding Global Economic Governance: Role of G20,” respectively. (IPA)