India sending biggest ever contigent to WEF meet

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New Delh: India is sending its biggest-ever contingent this time, comprising five union ministers, three chief ministers and ministers from several other states alongside nearly 100 CEOs and other leaders including from the government, civil society and fields of art and culture to the World Economic Forum meeting.

India’s ‘unity in diversity’ will be in full display when the rich and powerful from across the world assemble here for five days beginning Monday for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025.

“In the World Economic Forum in Davos, there is a lot of interest in understanding our thought process, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s economic policy, digital transformation and the way India has created a new digital architecture under the Digital India programme,” Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said before leaving for Davos as head of the Indian delegation.

“There will be a detailed discussion in the WEF Annual Meeting World Economic Forum about inclusive growth, investment in social, physical and digital infrastructure and democratising technology,” he said.

Vaishnaw will be joined by his four colleagues from the council of ministers at the Centre — CR Patil, Chirag Paswan, Jayant Chaudhary and K Ram Mohan Naidu.

They would also be joined by chief ministers of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana — Devendra Fadnavis, N Chandra Babu Naidu and A Revant Reddy, respectively.

Besides, there would be senior ministers from several other states, including Karnataka’s Deputy CM D K Shivakumar and Tamil Nadu’s TRB Rajaa, Kerala’s P Rajeeve. Uttar Pradesh will also have a presence and leaders here are already talking about Mahakumbh being held right now in Prayagraj.

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The Maharashtra government has set a target of signing Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) worth Rs 7 lakh crore at the WEF Annual Meeting, while Telangana CM Reddy along with his cabinet colleague D Sridhar Babu and senior officials are looking for their own share of investments.

So are Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and other states participating in the meeting. Along with them, the union government will also showcase India as an overall investment destination through its ministers and top officials.