Guwahati, August 10: The Assam government would set up a State Investment Council comprising leading industrialists of the country to promote investment oppurtunities in the state.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters here today that he had interacted with titans of Indian industry like Ratan Tata, J N Godrej, Anand Mahindra and others during his recent visit to Mumbai and they had evinced keen interest in investing in the state.
‘The visit to Mumbai was very fruitful with Godrej and Tata likely to become members of the Council and we are keen to bring in investment in the education sector in a big way to solve the problem of employment in the state’, he said.
Tata Institute of Social Sciences would set up an institute in the state as the emphasis is on education ‘mostly job-oriented’.
Ratan Tata would visit the state soon while Mahindra Group was interested in tourism, information technology and education and Aditya Birla Group was exploring possibilities of joint venture in coal blocks, Gogoi said.
—Agencies