The government of Jharkhand is looking forward to inking as many as 11 Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with various companies and countries on Friday. Inviting more businesses to set up their base in the state, senior officials told Indianmandarins that it aimed at creating at least 6 lakh new jobs in the state over the next few years.
Jharkhand is hosting its first ever investor's summit, Momentum Jharkhand, and is inclined to move away from its traditional industrial base focused mainly on the mining sector.
The state government plans to invite companies engaged in other sectors, and shed an image restricted only to mining, Das said.
Jharkhand has predominantly been a mining state when it comes to industries, with textiles taking another key spot. Das spoke about the government's Make in India plan and said he felt promoting micro, small, and medium businesses was a way to achieve that goal.
The first day of the investors'summit saw commitments worth as much as Rs 40,000 crore being made on Thursday.