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Trade Delegation to India

February 25, 2010 - 6:21pm — admin

UNMATCHED OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH THE LEADERS OF INDIA

India's Government And Corporate Leaders Request to Meet with America's Top Water Firms and Clean Energy Technologists

The Water Innovations Alliance is part of this US-India Trade Delegation, March 17-19, 2010

This Trade Delegation to India is intended to provide an unmatched opportunity for top U.S. businesses to meet with leaders in Industry and key Indian government officials.  Eight to ten cutting edge clean tech and water technologies are the focus areas of this trip.

Current arrangements call for meetings with the following individuals and organizations.  We expect to add additional business and governmental meetings over the coming month, depending upon the interests and makeup of the group.

From Government

The members of the delegation would meet with senior representatives within the following:

  • The Minister for New and Renewable Energy

  • The Minister for Commerce and Industry

  • The Minister for Power

  • The Director of the Department of Urban Development, Government of NCT of Delhi (water supply and sewerage)

  • Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (head of India's water supply and sewerage board)

From Industry

CEOs and senior-most officials from Companies and Industry Alliances engaged in development and deployment of new water technologies will be introduced and can share best practices with business leaders from representative companies noted below.  Water has, historically been a public sector responsibility.  However, the Indian Government is now focused on the private sector to engage and contract with at this time.  The Indian Government is pursuing major infrastructure reforms in the various sub-sectors of water.

  • Reliance Infrastructure, part of the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG): Amitabh Jhunjhunwalla, Group Managing Director. http://www.rinfra.com

  • Jamshedpur Utilities & Services Company (JUSCO), a subsidiary of the TATA group, provides comprehensive services in the supply of water to both industrial and domestic customers. http://juscoltd.com/water-and-waste-water.asp

  • Knowledge Infrastructure Systems Pvt, Ltd an evolving energy management company expanding into the water supply and waste management arena: Mr. Rahul Bhandare, Chairman and Managing Director. http://www.knowledgeispower.in

  • TERI is a leading global institution focused on sustainable development.  It has created an environment that is enabling, dynamic, and inspiring for the development of solutions to global problems in the fields of energy, environment and current patterns of development, which are largely unsustainable.  The head of TERI, Dr. Pachauri, is a Nobel Laureate (along with Al Gore) for Environmental Matters. http://www.teriin.org/

  • Reliance Energy, a key constituent of the Reliance-ADAG, India's third largest business house, is India's foremost private sector utility with aggregate group revenues of Rs. 13,017 crore (US$ 3 billion) and total assets of Rs. 12,166 crore (US$ 2.80 billion). Mr. J.P.Chalsani, CEO Reliance Power http://www.rel.co.in/Rel/aboutus/relatglance.jsp

  • - The GMR group is a global infrastructure player with major interests in Energy, Highways and Urban Infrastructure.  B.V.N. Rao, Chairman-Energy http://gmrgroup.co.in/

This is an unprecedented opportunity to meet with the individuals charged with modernizing India's water services and infrastructure.
The senior official members of the delegation are empowered and responsible to  initiate literally billions of dollars of new contracts in the water sector and are under increased pressure to do so.

DO NOT MISS OUT on this trip if you are in the water sector and are trying to expand your efforts, customer-base and bottomline.

If you are interested in attending, then please contact mark@waterinnovations.org