Industry expo starts February 22

Preparations are on for the five-day 'Incomex-2007', an exhibition relating to industry and commerce, to be held in Hubli from February 22.

Major players like BEML, BHEL, HMT, South Western Railway, Seabird Naval Base, Kirloskar Toyoda Textile Machineries Ltd, Mahindra and Mahindra, Reid and Taylor, Defence Food Research Laboratory, Reliance, Waterfalls Institute and CSIR among others will participate in the event.

A meeting under the chairmanship of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) president Shankaranna Munavalli reviewed the preparation on Sunday. Managing director of Visvesvaraya Institute of Industrial Technology, Bangalore H V Raghuram was also present.

Munavalli said 400 stalls would be put up at the stadium where products from automobile, electronic, textile, printing, electrical, food processing, handicraft and other industries would be on display.

Forty-two stalls have been reserved for women entrepreneurs. Raghuram said that he would request government departments, corporations and boards to participate in the exhibition.

Munavalli said, the Incomex-07 will boost the government's efforts to develop Hubli-Dharwad and other tier II cities in the state as industrial hubs.

Special lectures and symposia will be organised as part of the event. The exhibition will be open to the general public from 10 AM to 9 PM on all five days and there will be no entry fees.