GANDHINAGAR, July 24:
Chief Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his resolve to give a new direction to economic and industrial relations between Gujarat and Japan.
Mr Modi, who is on a four-day visit to Japan, invited Japan’s industrial houses to join the state’s march for industrial development.
Addressing a seminar on investment organised by JETRO at Tokyo yesterday, attended by nearly 400 delegates and Japan’s national media in Tokyo, he called for setting up a mini Japan in Gujarat, with convergence of the unique strengths of both.
Mr Modi said two Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are being set up in Gujarat on the JETRO PPP model, incorporating the cultural lifestyles of Gujarat and Japan. He exuded confidence of covering new milestones of historical relations. Companies from Japan are coming every week to set up its unit in Gujarat, he said.
JETRO Chairman Mr Hiroyuki Ishige hailed the Gujarat Chief Minister’s progressive and visionary leadership and welcomed the delegates.
During his discussion with Japan’s Minister for Trade and Industry (METI) Yukio Edano, Mr Modi discussed Japan’s collaboration in extending Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) via Ahmedabad to Dholera-Bhavnagar-Kalpsar, proposed Ahmedabad-Mumbai-Pune Bullet Train and developing Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad-Dholera Metro project on the lines of the Bullet Train.
He explored possibilities of Japan’s technical collaboration for the proposed Special Investment Region (SIR) at Dholera and Kalpsar dam-cum-tidal energy project across the Gulf of Cambay, Ahmedabad wastewater management project, canalizing river channels in Dholera region and starting Japanese language classes in Gujarat.He said two Japanese Industrial Zones, to be set up by Japan, would open the doors of Japan’s SME sector’s of collaboration with their counterpart in Gujarat.The Chief Minister invited Mr Edano to participate as ‘partner country’ in the forthcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit (VGGIS) in January 2013. (UNI)
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