FICCI offers to spruce up Brand Karnataka

FICCI to help refurbish Brand Karnataka
The Hindu Business Line

FICCI has offered to work with the State Government and help polish Brand Karnataka internationally.

The exercise would go beyond Bangalore, to across Karnataka and all its competences.

The apex body has proposed to hold a joint a Business Partnership Summit around March-April next year to showcase all the competences of the State under a programme called Dynamic Karnataka.

The FICCI President, Mr Yogendra K. Modi, told a news conference amidst the ongoing banking summit here on Wednesday that the federation had made a presentation to the State Industry & Infrastructure Minister, Mr P.G.R. Sindhia, on how seven-eight key sectors could be energised and put back on the growth path.

Among them are agriculture and agro food-processing, power, roads, ports and airports and general infrastructure; knowledge based industries such as infotech and biotechnology, tourism, textiles and SMEs.

The proposal, he said, was to revitalise Karnataka's various policies and make them attractive for domestic and international investors.

FICCI's 74 joint business councils overseas would be used to jointly promote the State, as the federation had done for Gujarat and a few other States.

"We are talking not just of Bangalore and IT but entire Karnataka" and its other centres of competence such as agro-processing and high-quality manufacturing, said the FICCI Secretary-General, Dr Amit Mitra.