Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is visiting the UK on 26-27 September 2016 to promote the Global Investor Summit being held in Indore in October, and to explore partnerships with the UK on smart cities and skills.
The UK is India’s partner country for the Global Investor Summit, which is the highest-profile biennial event for the state of Madhya Pradesh, and the forthcoming TECH Summit. The chief minister is leading a delegation of government officials from the commerce, industry, investment and employment departments.
The chief minister met the UK Secretary of State for International Development, The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, following her visit to Bhopal in August 2016 when the two last met.
Secretary of State for International Development (DFID), Priti Patel, said:
“The UK has a long and special relationship with Madhya Pradesh. It is a relationship based on solid foundations and a shared history that has a bright future as our partnership moves forward. Our record of working together has achieved impressive results in health, livelihoods, governance and urban development. And as we move forwards we will strengthen our ties by focusing on wealth and job creation which will benefit both Madhya Pradesh and the UK India relationship through partnership working.”
The chief minister will meet Rajesh Agarwal, Deputy Mayor of London for business. The two leaders will attend an event for the Madhya Pradesh diaspora community in London.
The UK is India’s country partner in developing three smart cities, which includes Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The chief minister is meeting British businesses to learn more about their expertise in developing smart cities and will explore opportunities for British investors in the state’s smart city programme. He will also lead a smart city roundtable and make a site visit to the Thames to observe how London uses technology to deal with waste water.
The UK has a robust technical assistance partnership with Madhya Pradesh on smart cities and urban development, and has multi-sector investments worth £6.5 million in the state. This delivers a key commitment agreed by the Prime Ministers of Britain and India in November 2015.
Further information
The UK’s Department for International Development has a long and special relationship with Madhya Pradesh. We have worked together for decades to achieve impressive development results in health, nutrition, livelihoods, governance and urban development. We are now moving to a whole of UK government partnership focused on wealth and job creation benefitting both Madhya Pradesh and the UK.
The UK is partnering with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for this year’s India-UK TECH Summit being held in Delhi in November 2016. The summit will be an opportunity to explore even closer UK-India cooperation across many fields including key initiatives such as Start-up India, Make in India; Smart Cities Mission and Digital India.
The India-UK TECH Summit will demonstrate the depth of India-UK partnerships in business, innovation, research, education and entrepreneurship, with the biggest showcase of British expertise and commitment to strengthening relationships in every sphere.
It will also host a major delegation from the UK, highlighting the UK’s capabilities across important sectors like smart cities, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, agri-tech, education and skills.
The summit will host a major exhibition of UK-India technological collaboration and, excitingly, a Hackathon organised by Barclays Rise, where young Indian students, entrepreneurs and tech-professionals will participate in a competition to find a solution to a specially-posed technical problem.
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