UP calls projects pre-bid meet today

UP calls projects pre-bid meet today
The Financial Express, January 30, 2009, page 9

Lucknow: To attract the private sector towards infrastructure development in the state, a high-level delegation of the Uttar Pradesh government, led by chief secretary Atul Kumar Gupta, will hold a pre-bid meet in New Delhi on Friday.

The objective is to facilitate a constructive interaction among the top-rung industrialists, their associations, business people and potential investors with senior state government officials.

The four departments that have been identified as thrust areas are tourism, transport, technical education and housing and urban rejuvenation.

The team of high-level government officials who have been dispatched include the industrial and infrastructure development commissioner VK Sharma, principal secretary, finance, Anup Mishra, principal secretary, infrastructure, VN Garg, and principal secretary, chief minister, Ravindra Singh, along with other senior government officials from various departments.