Key points:
- The Convention is being conducted on 11, 12, and 14 December 2020, practically due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
- The theme of this year’s Conference is “Inspired India,” as per the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
- The Convention will witness different stakeholders debating on the complexities of the post-pandemic world.
About the FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) 93rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) as well as Annual Convention on 12 December around 11 am, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will provide the inaugural address via video conference.
The virtual FICCI Annual Expo 2020 will be inaugurated by PM:
The Convention is being conducted on 11, 12, and 14 December 2020, practically due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The virtual FICCI Annual Expo 2020 will also be inaugurated by the Prime Minister, which will provide
an opportunity for exhibitors from around the world to display their goods and advance their business prospects.
The theme of the Conference “Inspired India”:
The theme of this year’s Conference is “Inspired India,” as per the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
The three-day virtual Conference, which will also be attended by many ministers, bureaucrats, business captains, ambassadors, foreign experts, as well as other leading luminaries, will include over 10,000 delegates from all over the world.
Ministers attended the Conference:
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Micro, Small as well as Medium Enterprises Nitin Gadkari, Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar, Minister of Trade and Industry Piyush Goyal, and Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad are all likely to address the Conference.
NK Singh, Chairman of the Finance Commission, as well as Amitabh Kant, Chairman of the NITI Aayog, will also address the FICCI AGM.
Industry leaders such as Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft; Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Alphabet; as well as N Chandrasekaran, chairperson of Tata Group, are also supposed to address the Conference.
The different stakeholders also attended:
The Convention will witness different stakeholders debating on the complexities of the post-pandemic world, the economic consequences of Covid-19, the government’s reforms, and the Indian economy’s way forward.
Uday Shankar, president of the Asia Pacific Walt Disney Corporation as well as president of Star and Disney India, will succeed Sangita Reddy, joint MD of Apollo Hospitals, as FICCI president at the AGM.