PM Modi to inaugurate Assam's first global investors summit tomorrow

Guwahati: In a bid to showcase its manufacturing opportunities and geostrategic advantages to foreign and domestic investors, Assam will host its first global investors summit beginning tomorrow.

The 'Advantage Assam: Global Investors Summit 2018', which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aims at highlighting Assam's geostrategic advantages and core competencies in different sectors along with the policy initiatives taken by the state government.

'So far, 4,500 delegates have registered



for participation that include representatives from 16 countries. Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay has already arrived while industrialists like Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata are expected to attend the summit,' Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal told PTI.

The chief minister said the February 3-4 event will showcase the manufacturing prowess and the opportunities offered by Assam in terms of export-oriented manufacturing and services to growing economies such as the ASEAN and the Southeast Asian countries.