J&K Investor Summit’s web presence comes alive, lot needs to be done still

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JAMMU: Following a story carried by The News Now regarding the delayed rollout of online presence for J&K Global Investors’ Summit, the authorities concerned took notice of the issue, and as such, the website and social media accounts for the much awaited event are now live.

The vibrant appearing website for J&K’s first ever Investors’ Summit is accessible at www.jkinvestorsummit.com since 23 January 2020.

It showcases Jammu and Kashmir’s 15 focus areas for attracting investment, namely – Agriculture & Mulberry production for silk, Agro & Food Processing, Education & Skill Development, Film Sector, Handloom & Handicraft, Horticulture & Post Harvest Management, Logistics Sector, Pharmaceuticals Sector, Manufacture Sector, Infrastructure & Real Estate, IT & ITES, Healthcare Sector, Milk Poultry & Wool Production, Renewable Energy, Tourism & Hospitality.

Further, the concerned authorities have put up on the website, string of policies to boost the investment in the abovementioned focus areas - Captive Power & Open Access; Education Investment Policy 2020; J&K Film Policy 2020; J&K Poultry Policy; Real Estate Policy; J&K Tourism Policy; IT & ITES Policy; Agriculture, Horticulture & Food Processing Policy; Pharmaceutical Policy; Sericulture Development Policy; Handloom & Handicraft Policy; Healthcare & AYUSH Policy; and Hydropower and Renewable Energy Policy.

The website also has provision for the interested entrepreneurs and investors who want to register for the Investors’ Summit.

“It is good to see the website finally come alive. Most importantly, it has unveiled the policies,” says Rahul, a local businessman.

Notably, the domain name for this website is slightly different from the one mentioned in the official document (www.jkinvestorssummit.com), as was hinted by The News Now in its story.

On the social media front, J&K Global Investors’ Summit, which kicks off in April this year, has got its Youtube Channel ‘Invest JK’, a Facebook page ‘Invest J & K @Investjandk’, and Twitter account @ InvestinJK.

Curiously, a social media enthusiast of Jammu points out that the Youtube channel of the investors’ summit was started on 21 August 2019, and has two videos and two subscribers to date, while the Facebook page, created on 24 August 2019, has two posts and one like and one follower. The twitter account, also created in August 2019, fares better with seven tweets, three retweets, and 132 followers.

“These accounts as well as every section of the website need to be more alive to be able to fulfill the purpose they are made for,” he says.

Pertinently, PWC is the media management partner while EY is the knowledge partner for the event, who have been directed to work in close coordination with Information Department for the event promotion.

J&K’s maiden investors’ summit, earlier scheduled to be held in October 2019, raised eyebrows when it was postponed within a fortnight of its announcement. With GC Murmu taking the charge of the government, preparations commenced again for the event.

On January 20, LG Murmu led his team to a first of its kind pre-summit investors’ meet, essentially a curtain raiser, held at New Delhi, in a bid to invite investments from across the world by highlighting the untapped potential of the union territory.

The News Now had published the story titled ‘No website, social media accounts for maiden Investor Summit’20 yet’ on 22 January, 2020, which highlighted that despite the recent directions of Commissioner Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, the website for J&K Global Investors’ Summit was yet to make an online presence.