Bengaluru Oct 6 (Agencies): German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to visit the Bosch factory at Adugodi and take part in the Nasscom event at Hotel Leela Palace today.

She will be sharing the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at both the events.

After viewing presentations on Bosch engineering and business solutions and vocational centre, both the leaders will walk through its facilities and interact with its executives.

Modi and Merkel will interact with who's who of the IT industry, including Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayan Murthy, Wipro czar Azim Premji and German software major SAP India executives at the Nasscom event.

"Bengaluru is the city where you can see how German firms like Bosch, Siemens, SAP, BASF and Mercedes-Benz innovate and make in India products and solutions for its development," said German Consul General Jorn Rohde.

According to German Ambassador Martin Ney, both the leaders will be focusing on the business ties between the two countries.

Merkel’s visit to Bosch comes four months after the company threatened to pull out of Karnataka over delays in clearances for the first phase of a Rs 1500 crore expansion plan.
Bosch has employed 17,000 in its five manufacturing units in Bengaluru.