A group of ministers and senior officials of the Yogi Government reached Chennai on Sunday on a three-day visit to invite entrepreneurs to invest in Uttar Pradesh and contribute towards making it ‘Uttam Pradesh’ as well as a $ 1 trillion economy.

The team including Cabinet Minister Suresh Khanna, Independent Charge Minister Nitin Agarwal, Minister of State Aseem Arun, Minister Narendra Kashyap and senior officials Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor Chief Nodal RKS Bhadauria, ACS MSME Amit Mohan Prasad, UPPCL Chairman M Devaraj, IIDD Principal Secretary Anil Sagar, Excise Commissioner Senthil Pandian and CM Yogi’s Advisor KV Raju will have one to one meetings with 25 industrialists.

The meetings will start at dinner on Sunday and conclude with breakfast on Tuesday. Besides, more than 150 industrialists will attend the roadshow in which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s team will inform these industrialists about investment opportunities in Uttar Pradesh and encourage them to invest, said officials here.

It is worth mentioning that after the successful roadshows of Team Yogi abroad to attract investments to the state of Uttar Pradesh and invite industrialists to attend Global Investors Summit to be held next month in Lucknow, Chief Minister Yogi kicked off domestic roadshows, to be held in nine metropolitan cities, in Mumbai on January 5.

As per the schedule of the team, it will discuss investment potential of the state with RG Chandramogan, Managing Director, Hutson Agro Products; M. Ponuswamy, CMD, Pompure Chemicals; and Tuffy Ltd. Group President TR Kesavan at dinner as well as with Anil Akbar, CEO of Water World and MM Murugapa, Vice Chairman of Murugapa Group at breakfast.

This will be followed by B2G meetings with Tenth Planet Technologies Pvt. Ltd. CEO Kumran Mani, Trivitron Vice Chairman A Ganesan, Indira Projects CMD Bhupesh Nagarajan, Colliers GM (Industrial & Logistic Services) Karthik Rajan, Praveen Group CMD Mohd Fazal, ED Gothman of Cetex Petrochemicals, VC of Savetha University Prof Chandram Shivaji; Fariq Ahmed, Chairman, Farida Group; Nandkumar, MD, Navvin Energy, Microchem Products India Pvt. Director Nitin Shroff, CMD Thrirumaliya Chemicals R Parthasarathy, Contact Civil Aid Solutions Pvt. K Director N Geetha, Lux TVS CMD TK Balaji, KLM Exports Proprietor G Muraleedharan, Head of India Operations of Manisha Soft Solutions Pvt Ltd B Santosh Kumar and Rajan Vijay Kumar, CEO of Mclean India and Tomo House.

Before leaving Chennai, the group of ministers and officials will discuss setting up projects in the state with some entrepreneurs over breakfast on Tuesday including Vice Chairman and MD of MRF Ltd, Chennai, Arun Mammen and G Vishwanathan, founder and chancellor of VIT University, Vellore. On Monday, more than 150 entrepreneurs from Chennai will be present in the roadshow.