Jeff Bezos, Dilip Shanghvi to be conferred with USIBC Global Leadership Award 2016.
AB Wire
WASHINGTON, DC: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 41st Annual Leadership Summit of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), here, on June 7th.
USIBC’s anniversary event draws top business and government leaders and serves as a forum for engaging in discussions on deepening U.S.-India commercial and strategic ties. Modi’s address on June 7 would be ahead of his address to the Joint Session of the U.S. Congress. As part of the USIBC annual summit, Modi will also participate in a roundtable with top global CEOs, according to a press release.
“India became the top global FDI destination in 2015 – attracting $63 billion – fueled by PM Modi’s ability to attract foreign investors and to build a globally competitive environment in India. The U.S.-India bilateral relationship has also matured significantly over the last few years, and extends beyond the leadership of the two countries,” said USIBC President Dr. Mukesh Aghi, in a statement. “The Council’s annual summit not only honors strategic and commercial aspects of the bilateral ties, but also celebrates people-to-people ties that have come to define the opportunities between the two nations.”
This year’s honorees for the USIBC Global Leadership Award are Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, and founder and managing director of Sun Pharmaceuticals Dilip Shanghvi.
“Jeff and Dilip are two leaders that are shaping the U.S.-India trade ties with their incredible business acumen and have made a lasting impression in integrating India into the global economy,” said Aghi. “We couldn’t think of more qualified icons that are emblematic of the immense potential of our trade relationship. We are honored to be presenting the 2016 Global Leadership Award to them.”
Last year, the Council’s 40th Annual Leadership Summit served as the official kick-off to the U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue and hosted Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry; U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal, among others.
Last year’s business honorees were Indra Nooyi, CEO and Chairperson, PepsiCo, and Shobhana Bhartia, Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times Group.
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Will there be tech investment initiatives for long neglected Northeast cities like Agartala ? How India’s GDP can grow when Northeast cities like Agartala continues to remain economically backward ? Left ruled Agartala has become 3rd Internet gateway and with a lameduck leadership unwilling and having poor understanding of Industry and technology, Tripura and its Youth’s future have been continuously ruined leaving a record 25.2% (highest in India) unemployment.
It has been a long wait for Tripura and its youths who have been suffering everyday from chronic unemployment and concerned folks are just happy to mint Govt salary month after month with an excuse of unemployment is throughout country or no infrastructure. At whose cost please ?
With a record (highest in India) 25.2% of unemployment Left ruled Tripura continues to bite dust of under-development and non-performance due to state’s outdated policies of being anti development and industry without realizing world and India’s economy driven by Business and technology.
So far it has been about Govt job, salary, subsidy – on tax payers money and mediocre plastic industry for name sake being the focus – which still fails to show hope to lakhs of educated unemployed youths!
Urgent need is to bring high end industry and jobs at Agartala having follow up with Industry leaders and setting up required infrastructure on a war footing.
With high speed internet and 24/7 power, Can capital Agartala look forward in 2016 to being an IT hub with high end IT jobs for 7 lakh educated unemployed youths of Trpiura ?.