Gujarat to develop model port city on the lines of Kobe
CM meets 2,000 key personnel,
including seven ministers, top industrialists
and bankers at 66 functions in official
visit to Japan.
“With this visit
to Japan begins a
new chapter of mutual trust” ~ Narendra Modi.
Chief Minister, Modi leading business delegation from Gujarat to Japan, starts return journey
Ahmedabad, Friday: The
high-level business
delegation
from Gujarat,
led by Chief Minister Mr.
Narendra Modi, started
on return journey from
Osaka this afternoon after a very successful
four-day tour
of Japan
on the invitation
of Japanese Government.The delegation is scheduled to land in Ahmedabad International
Airport
tonight.
In
Japan,
Mr. Modi met nearly 2,000 top
honchos and key personnel
of different organizations,
including seven
ministers, at 65 functions, in groups or over one-to-one meetings,
receptions, in
five provinces, namely
Toyo, Hamamatsu, Aichi-Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe-Hyogo. He had a roundtable
meeting with top brass of Mizuho Corporate Bank as he addressed
three seminar
of JETRO at different locations.
Responding to a grand farewell function at Kobe on the
last day of his official
visit to Japan today, Mr. Modi observed that this visit would
serve as value
addition to the
cordial relation
between Gujarat and Japan
and take it to greater heights,
opening up
new avenues
of co-operations in myriad ways. Mr. Modi said
he is overwhelmed
by the warmth received everywhere.
The function was extended by Kobe-Hyogo Prefecture Governor Mr. Toshizo Ido
and Vice-Governor at the Governor House.
Mr.
Modi said
that Gujarat’s similarities and close relations with Kobe is not limited
to disaster management but also in several development projects,
in new frontiers. It included
setting up a Disaster Management Museum,
developing a Model City
on the lines of Kobe.
He said
Gujarat could do wonders by combining the technology and discipline of Japan on the one hand, and Gujarat’s
entrepreneurial skills
and work culture in developing DMIC, Asia’s biggest Auto Hub and other projects. Similarly,
Japans’ expertise
in hardware
and Gujarat’s talent in software could also
be developed on mutual relations.
Speaking
on the occasion, Mr. Ido recalled his visit to
Gujarat in 2010. The Kobe-Hyogo
Province
had also extended its assistance
to the quake-hit Kutch in Gujarat and helped build a school and boarding at
Bhachau. He assured complete co-operation
to Gujarat’s Disaster Management
and developing a Model Port
on the lines of Kobe.
Earlier, in the morning, Mr. Modi took one hour’s ride in the Bay Area on a marine boat to acquaint
himself about the working of Kobe
port in the Bay Area. The Kobe port is known for rising from the debris within two years of
the disastrous earthquake in
1995. The Kobe airport has also been
declared as a marine
airport.
This assumes
special significance as Chief Minister’s dream to develop Dholera SIR (Special Investment Region) as an International Port
City, projected to be larger than Shanghai. He proposes to stretch
the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial
Corridor
(DMIC) as ‘Coastal Corridor’, extending it from Ahmedabad to Dholera and Bhavnagar,
up to Kalpsar dam-cum-tidal power
project.
Mr. Modi finds uncanny similarity between Kobe and Dholera in Gujarat.
Both the regions were devastated by the earthquake. Kobe port was established in 812 A.D. Likewise, Dholera is also
an ancient port in the Gulf of Cambay (Khambhat), with historical records of trade with Eurasian countries.
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