From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Oct 17: The State Government has reconstituted the Invest Karnataka Forum (IKF) under the chairmanship of noted industrialist Sajjan Jindal.

The order for reconstituting the IKF to attract more investments to the State and also strengthen the State’s image as an investment destination at the national and international level has been issued by Large and Medium Industries Minister M B Patil.

Apart from Sajjan Jindal, the IKF will have Gitanjali Kirlosakar chairperson of Kirloskar Systems from the Automobile Sector, Ekus Inc Chairman Aravind Melligeri from Aerospace and Defence Sector, Jetworks Company co-founder Ankit Fatepuria from the Production Sector and Kennametal Managing Director Vijayakrishnan Venkateshan from Machine Tools sector as members.

In addition, a first-of-its-kind Strategic Investment Committee has been constituted as part of IKF to suggest suitable guidelines with representatives from various sectors with the minister as the chairman.

AMD Director Mrithyunjaya Hiremath, CBRE South Asia Private Ltd Managing Director Ram T Chandnani, Axel Partners Co. Prashant Prakash, Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamat, Pepper Global Co. senior managing direcror Ravi Manchand, Merika Group Investment Director Ashwin Krishnaswamy, Capitaland CEO Gowrishankar Nagabhushan and Industrialsit Kasaragodu Ullas Karanth are the other members of the Strategic Investment Committee.

Both the panels will help the State Government in attracting investments from America, Germany, France, Netherlands, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan besides helping the government in adopting ease of doing business strategies.

Industries Department Principal Secretary Selva Kumar and Commissioner Gunjan Krishna are the other ex-officio members of the panels.