Shinde, Sharma, Abdullah to visit Chicago on Tuesday

From Himani Kumar
Chicago, Sep 19 (PTI) Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar
Shinde, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma and
Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah, will travel to
Chicago on Tuesday, the eve of the US-India Economic
Opportunities and Synergies Summit being held here.
The centennial summit of the prestigious Executives Club
of Chicago is being held in collaboration with the Federation
of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the
Chicago Council on Global Affairs at the Fairmont Hotel on
September 20.
The annual event being organised by FICCI focuses on the
investment potential offered by India's infrastructure sector,
which is projected to require USD 1 trillion over the coming
years to sustain the country's economic growth rate.
The event also looks to find ways to enhance trade,
political and economic relations between India and the United
States.
India is seeking coal blocks overseas as it has been
unable to meet capacity addition targets necessary to satisfy
high domestic demand.
Notably, Shinde will hold a press conference at the
Fairmont Hotel tomorrow evening and will not be present for
the September 20 event.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is scheduled to speak at the
summit the next day.
Also present will be recently appointed Indian
Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao, Consul General of India in
Chicago Mukta Dutta Tomar, Secretary of Civil Aviation S N A
Zaidi and Chicago Council on Global Affairs President Marshall
Bouton, besides other American and Indian corporate
executives.
FICCI president Harsh Mariwala will lead the 20-member
delegation.
Others participants in the forum are Bharti Enterprises
Vice Chairman and Managing Director Rajan Bharti Mittal, JK
Paper Limited Managing Director Harshpati Singhania and
Kanoria Chemicals & Industry Ltd Chairman and Managing
Director R V Kanoria.
The FICCI delegation will later visit New York to attend
the Eighth Annual Institutional Investors' Forum on September
21 organised by FICCI, where Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
will speak.