{"id":316514,"date":"2019-11-07T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316514"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:37:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:37:43","slug":"pm-modi-inaugurates-rising-himachal-global-investors-meet-2019-in-dharamshala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-inaugurates-rising-himachal-global-investors-meet-2019-in-dharamshala\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi inaugurates Rising Himachal: Global Investor&#8217;s Meet 2019 in Dharamshala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316515 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pm-modi-himachal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/pm-modi-himachal.jpg 805w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/pm-modi-himachal-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/pm-modi-himachal-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/pm-modi-himachal-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/pm-modi-himachal-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/pm-modi-himachal-570x420.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated the Rising Himachal, the Global Investors Meet 2019 at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the gathering, Prime Minister said, he is happy to welcome all the Wealth Creators to this meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said earlier states were offering various discounts to attract investment and that the investors were waiting to see which State offered more concessions or discounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister said that in the last few years states have realised that this competition of offering discounts or concessions to industrialists were of no benefit to anyone \u2013 either to the state or to the Industrialists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, today the vehicle of development in India is moving ahead with a new thinking and new approach, on four Wheels of \u2013 \u201cSociety, Government which is encouraging New India, an Industry which is daring, and Knowledge with a motive of sharing\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister said, that, between 2014 and 2019 India improved 79 places in Ease of Doing Business Rankings. He said \u201cEvery year we are improving in each parameter. Improvement in these rankings means that our Government is making decisions after a thorough understanding of the needs at the grass roots level for the industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis is not just an improvement in rankings but a major revolution in the way of doing business in India. In today\u2019s global scenario, India is standing strong as we did not allow our economic fundamentals to become weak\u201d, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said Industry is now provided with a proper exit route through robust Insolvency and Bankruptcy code.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Union Government has taken a major decision for the benefit of middle class where in the Government has decided to restart the stalled housing projects across the country so that 4.58 Lakh families can now get their houses in which they have invested,\u201d Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He the central government has also slashed Corporate Tax to 15% for new domestic companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He requested Industry and Global representatives to view India as one of the most favourable destination for investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister said that the decision to invest over Rs 100 Lakh Crores for infrastructure development would benefit the state of Himachal Pradesh too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He appreciated state government of Himachal Pradesh for undertaking several landmark initiatives for creating an investor friendly environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In this context, he mentioned steps taken by the state government, such as single window clearance system, sector specific policies, transparent system of land allotment etc are making it an attractive destination for investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister described Himachal as having an immense potential for conference tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister also visited the exhibition show casing the investment potential and opportunities of Himachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also released a coffee table book in this context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UAE is the Partner Country for the Global Investor\u2019s Meet. Over 1700 Business Delegates including 200 International delegates participated in the event.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated the Rising Himachal, the Global Investors Meet 2019 at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. Addressing the gathering, Prime Minister said, he is happy to welcome all the Wealth Creators to this meet. He said earlier states were offering various discounts to attract investment and that the investors were waiting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[5058,1340,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316516,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316514\/revisions\/316516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}