The Ministry of Corporate Affairs will organize a
week long India Corporate and Investor Meet from February 6 to 12, 2012
in the five metro cities, namely, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore and
Delhi. A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting chaired by Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, Union Minister for
Corporate Affairs yesterday. The senior representatives from leading trade
chambers of the country, namely, CII, FICCI, PHDCCI, IMC and ASSOCHAM were
present in the meeting besides the Secretary, Corporate Affairs, Shri Naved Masood and other senior officials
of the Ministry. The officials from the three professional institutes attached
with the Ministry i.e. ICAI, ICSI and ICWAI, were also present during the
deliberations.
The theme of the event will be ‘Corporate Growth,
Governance and Inclusion’.
The Meet will be a full
day event in all the selected metro cities and will focus on subjects like
investor related issues, corporate governance and CSR, followed by an “Open
House” discussion to summarize the deliberations. The objective of this meet is
to create awareness as well as impact through discussions on the issues
considered to be important both from the perspective of the corporate as well
as the investors.
The calendar of events for the Meet is as under:
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Location of Events
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Lead Partner
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Dates
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Kolkata
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FICCI
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06.02.2012
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Chennai
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ICAI
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07.02.2012
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Mumbai
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IMC
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08.02.2012
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Bangalore
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CII
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10.02.2012
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Delhi
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PHDCCI
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11.02.2012
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The event at Delhi
will be at the end of the Meet on a national level, where the ‘Analysis
Reports’ of the events would be discussed and deliberated for a final document
containing inputs for framing a roadmap for future progress of Indian Economy
and Corporate sector.
It may be noted that the Ministry is already
conducting programmes through its professional institutes (ICAI, ICSI and
ICWAI) and other trade and business chambers. The Ministry also organized
‘India Investor Week’ (IIW) from July 12-17, 2010 in order to bring a national
focus on the subject of investor awareness. The Ministry also started the
initiative of bringing national focus on the role and contribution of the
corporate sector in the Indian social and economic development through the
“India Corporate Week” (ICW) in association with the national and regional
trade and industry chambers and the professional institutes.
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