Ambassadors, High Commissioners call on TN Guv

A team of High Commissioners and Ambassadors representing various countries who are on a familiarisation visit to Tamil Nadu, today called on the state Governor K Rosaiah here.
Kenya High Commissioner to India Suchitra Durai, Lebanon Ambassador Anita Nayar, Malaysian High Commissioner T S Tirumurti, Sri Lankan High Commissioner Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, France Ambassador Dr Mohan Kumar called on Rosaiah, according to a Raj Bhavan release.
Prime Minister (Narendra Modi's) initiative to establish a State division headed by a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism to coordinate with States and Union Territories will promote export and tourism and attract more investments in India, the envoys said during the interaction with Rosaiah.

"Focus of the countries for investments in India especially in Tamil Nadu was on education exchange programme and in promotion of tourism," they said.
Rosaiah said the Global Investors Meet organised by the state government last year was an "effort to build the attractive growth prospects and the government's commitment to make the state as the most preferred investment destination".
"Tamil Nadu has made rapid strides in the pursuit of economic development. State is an information technology and knowledge hub with broad-based manufacturing sector," he said.
On the occasion, the Governor presented the book 'Raj Bhavans of Tamil Nadu' to the Ambassadors and High Commissioners, it said.