Tokyo [Japan] January 22 (ANI): After winding up the go to to Seoul for the primary leg of the Advantage Assam 2.0 Roadshow, Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma reached Tokyo, to take ahead the Advantage Assam Roadshow.
Chief Minister Sarma started his day by paying tributes to the daddy of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi at Edogawa the place he was accorded a heat reception by the Assamese diaspora with whom he had a heartful interplay and savoured selfmade Assamese delicacies, as per a press launch from Assam Chief Minister’s Office.
Himanta Biswa Sarma thereafter started his official engagements for the day by addressing the Advantage Assam Roadshow amidst attendance of 160 enterprise leaders.
Sharing a publish on X, he wrote, “Had a very engaging Day 1 in Japan where I had meetings with over 160 industry leaders and outlined our vision of Simplicity, Transparency, Efficiency and Effective Policy to attract investments into Assam.”Sarma additionally shared particulars of his assembly with Kazuo Ofuchi, Managing Executive Officer of Konoike Transport and said that he invited the corporate to take part in Advantage Assam 2.0 and discover funding alternatives within the state’s healthcare sector.
Highlighting Assam’s concentrate on public well being infrastructure, he emphasised plans to assemble 23 new medical schools and hospitals.
In one other publish, he wrote, “Just concluded a good discussion with Mr Kazuo Ofuchi San, the Managing Executive Officer of @konoike_pr, I have invited them join us at AdvantageAssam2 and explore opportunities in Assam’s rapidly growing health sector. Our focus on expanding public health care involves constructing 23 new medical colleges and hospitals, a comprehensive health insurance plan and trained medical and nursing workforce.”The Chief Minister highlighted the shut Indo-Japan ties and Japan’s continued assist in a bunch of initiatives ongoing in Assam within the fields of city improvement, infrastructure, healthcare, manpower amongst others.
He underlined Assam’s willingness to arrange a devoted Japanese Business Park within the State to host industries from the nation and talked in size concerning the USD 3 billion PLI on supply for industries to set their bases.
In his tackle and later in his conferences, Sarma additionally reiterated the Union Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assist to Assam’s ambitions of being a premier industrial state to make sure holistic progress of the State, the press launch said.
He additionally laid down the Union Govt’s particular emphasis on Assam because the core of its Act East Policy. Dr Sarma held six conferences in the present day with leaders from the semiconductor, hydrocarbon, healthcare and renewable vitality sectors.
The Chief Minister started his bilateral interactions with a gathering with Koga Yuichiro, Hon’ble State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Govt of Japan to debate Japan’s function in skilling Assam’s youths.
He additionally met Kazuya Nakajo, Executive Vice President of Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) to debate rising methods to bolster commerce and commerce ties between Assam and Japan. His subsequent interplay was with Hirohide Hirai, Vice President of Hitachi the place the Chief Minister outlined the alternatives for Hitachi to spend money on Assam’s increasing renewable vitality sector.
Earlier this week, CM Sarma concluded the primary part of his International Roadshow in South Korea for Advantage Assam 2.0. He had a number of productive conferences with stakeholders in sectors like renewable vitality, semiconductors, and small and medium enterprises. (ANI)