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Dear Member, Reader
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The 23rd edition of the Indian Economic Summit just concluded on the 14th December in Delhi. Its theme was "Building centres of excellence".
The key prerequisite for India to expand its success story beyond IT, biotech, manufacturing, and aviation was identified as drastically improving physical infrastructure, education and health services for the entire population. |
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Revamping cities was several times mentioned by high-level Indian officials and businessmen as key to ensuring the social and environmental sustainability of India's economic growth. It vindicates our Centre's urban focus and its consistent efforts to offer practical solutions to the woes of Indian cities brought to our Goa Forum by European cities, companies, experts, NGO's, etc.
The special IES session on the controversial Special Economic Zones proved to be a tame affair, as everybody seems to reconcile with their necessity to take some of the pressure off existing cities and allow them time to undergo the structural reforms that the National Urban Renewal Mission has set as prerequisite to its generous infrastructure funding.
In this context, our next Forum in Goa offers a unique occasion to Indian cities to walk the talk, as Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Goa did in the streets of Lyon, Frankfurt and La Rochelle in October, as a follow-up of the last Goa Forum. They could see for real European excellence at work in a few critical sectors of their choice. We hope that the next Forum will bring about more such concrete exchanges leading to enduring co-operation tie-ups.
Vocational training was also seen at the IES as a major shortcoming of India's success story. There again lies a unique opportunity for Europe to contribute its acknowledged expertise in the field through the Forum and help set up pilot vocational training centres in India with corporate help that can be replicated and scaled-up. India is dramatically short in qualified construction manpower to fuel its on-going urban construction boom, let alone cope with the enhanced demand created by NURM-enabled infrastructure projects and new SEZ's.
Is there a nobler mission for the EuroIndia Centre than acting as a catalyst in a major Euro-Indian move to provide thousands of skilled jobs to the smart street kids of Indian cities, thus empowering them with their own future and the future of the cities they live in?
I call upon your help to make it happen at the Forum in Goa!
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Thank you for your renewed support and your faith in our Euro-India destiny,
Yours sincerely,
Colette Mathur
Co-President
2008 Forum in Goa (3-5 April)
To ensure entry, please register without delay through:
http://www.the-euroindia-centre.org
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Policy & Regulations |
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Trade
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Memberspeak |
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The 2008 EuroIndia Forum Status
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The Euroindia Sphere |
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Welcome to New Members |
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Member News |
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Colette Mathur - the former director of the World Economic Forum - has come a long way since 1985 when the first India Economic Summit was held in Davos. "Things were very different in those days, when there was hardly any interest in India and we had to put in a lot of efforts to find participants. |
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