CII facilitates Sukhbir Badal’s Endeavour to Bring Infosys to Punjab

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Chandigarh 30^th September: --- CII facilitated the visit of Deputy Chief Minister, S. Sukhbir Singh Badal and his team of senior Government of Punjab officials to Infosys Campus at Bangalore. The Deputy Chief Minister and his team held a series of meetings with top executives at Infosys including Dr Narayan Murthy, Chairman, Infosys and Mr S Gopalakrishnan, Executive Vice Chairman, Infosys and President CII.

 The Deputy CM apprised the Infosys top management of the various initiatives and a slew of incentives being offered by the state Government in its new Industrial policy and invited Infosys to set up its facilities in Punjab. Dr Narayan Murthy and Mr Gopalakrishanan appreciated the Government of Punjab's efforts to reach out to industry and coming out with pro industry policy with specific focus on  new age sectors such as IT/ ITES, Agro processing & Bio sciences.

Gopalakrishan assured Government of Punjab that a team of senior officials from Infosys would soon visit Punjab to explore the feasibility of making investments in the state. Mr Badal promised all possible support to Infosys for making their operations feasible in Punjab.

The visit to Infosys is part of Government of Punjab's Progressive Punjab campaign in Bangalore whereby CII is the Institutional partner to the state Government and facilitating its outreach interaction with the local industry.

Sukhbir Singh Badal also invited Dr Murthy and Gopalakrishnan to visit Punjab for the Punjab Global Investor summit scheduled on 9th – 10th December 2013 at Chandigarh.