Gujarat CM Anandi Patel conducts roadshow in Mumbai ahead of Vibrant Gujarat Summit

MUMBAI: The Gujarat government would soon introduce comprehensive policies on electronics, IT and e-governance, and was looking at public private partnerships to establish centres of excellence with engineering colleges, Chief Minister Anandi Patel said today.

Patel addressed Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2015 roadshow here today. The seventh edition of VGS will be held in January.

She added that the electronics policy aims to develop green- and brown-field industry in the state, whereas policies in IT and e-governance will aim at 'last mile transformation and transparency'.

The Chief Minister said that focus on employment has been the key of industrial growth in Gujarat. Her government was ready to consider public private partnership in establishing Centres of Excellence with engineering colleges and plans to have 183 such centres, she said.

The January 2015 VGS will have eight country partners, and provide platform to business leaders to deliberate on innovation, climate change, MSME development, etc, Patel said.

Gujarat finance minister Saurabh Patel said that the state provides a stable political environment, is revenue surplus with executed fiscal responsibility and discipline and power surplus.

Siemens has agreed to invest Rs 700 crore to set up six Centres of Excellence in Gujarat, he said.

Chief Minister Patel also met leading industrialists and bankers including Adi Godrej, Baba Kalyani, A M Naik, Deepak Parekh, Swati Piramal, Sajjan Jindal, Ashok Hinduja, R Mukundan Sikha Swarup and K V Kamath during her visit here.