Around Rs.11 crore of aid received from Centre to host global investors' meet in Dharamshala: Jai Ram Thakur

Dharamshala, November 5, 2019: The industrial ministry of India has given Rs 10 crore and tourism ministry has given 1crore for organising the global investment meet in Dharamshala,which is to be staged on 7 th and 8th of November.
This was disclosed by CM Jai Ram Thakur in a press briefing in Dharamshala on Tuesday.
He said that to attract more investment the state government has made few new flexible policies this year, which include industrial policy, tourism policy, film policy, Ayush policy, power policy and ITpolicy.
He said that so far 1710 delegates have conformed their participation in this meet including 200 international delegates who are coming from countries like Russia, US, Malaysia, UAE , Germany etc. Thakur said that so far around 583 MOUs have been signed for Rs.82000 crore. He said that the investors are found interested to invest in sectors like IT, Echo Tourism, Horticulture,Sports, Agriculture and so on.
He said that we are very lucky that PM Narendra Modi is visiting Dharmshala twice within a year.
"PM Modi shall inaugurate the meet on November 7 at Dharamshala and Home Minister Amit Shah will be the chief guest of closing ceremony the very next day.
Thakur said to make it transparent,the government of Himachal Pradesh is bringing the Article 118 of Land Tenancy Act online which will reduce the headache of the investors to get land in the state.
CM said that even after the meet the state government shall continue its efforts to bring more investment in the state.