Tata, Ambani, Mittal to take part in Vibrant Gujarat 2009

Ahmedabad: Industry captains Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal would attend the inaugural session of Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit (VGGIS), officials sources said.
According to the officials, who are coordinating with the industry representatives, Tata, Ambani and Mittal have confirmed their presence in the summit, which will be held on January 12-13 at the Science City here.
"We have received a number of confirmations from the various industrialists, including Ratan Tata of Tata group, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries and Sunil Bharti Mittal of Airtel," said a senior official in the industry department, adding more confirmations are awaited.Apart from these, local industrialists like Gautam Adani of Adani group, Janmenjay Vyas of Dishman, Sudhir Mehta of Torrent, Pankaj Patel of Zydus Cadila, Karsan Patel of Nirma have also confirmed that they would be am part at the event.
Apart from top industrialists, a number of foreign diplomats and delegations will also attend the two-day summit that is organised by the state government every alternate year, sources added."We will have delegations from Italy, Japan, Kenya, Uganda and many other countries," the official said.The state industry department, which is a nodal agency for the summit has sent as many as 20,000 invitations to the industry, foreign diplomats, MNCs and others for the summit.During the summit, the state government would ink many MoUs with various firms regarding investments in the state.
"We are very buoyant after shifting of Tata's Nano car project to Gujarat and expect many big projects to come to the state during Vibrant Summit," said a Saurabh Patel, Minister of State for industry.He added that many announcements regarding upcoming projects will be made during the summit.