Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh on Monday drew hundreds of visitors to its stall at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017 and received rave appreciations from all including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Arunachal stall with the theme of organic-agri, horticulture, heritage, textile and culture was one of the 9 stalls of about 200 stalls visited by Modi along with Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in Ahmedabad on Monday, an official report informed here.
The Prime Minister went around the stall and spent maximum time in appreciating the traditional handlooms, organic agriculture and horticulture products, orchids and historical tourist sites.
He was extremely happy to visit the Arunachal stall and congratulated Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein for putting up a grand show in the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit.
Touted as the biggest of the biennial business summits, which was conceived and launched by Modi when he was Gujarat chief minister in 2003, the eighth edition will see more than 6,000 delegates participating in eight seminars and business-to-business and business-to-government meetings.
Two truck-loads of various exhibits were transported from Arunachal to Gujarat with an aim to attract potential investments in myriad sectors in the state.
Khandu has been putting enormous effort in luring corporate giants for investing in the state and Arunachal’s participation in the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit is one such platform to showcase the rich potentials of the state to the investors.
A high level investment summit and a state seminar of Arunachal will be conducted on Tuesday. (UNI)
