TOI MD among 5 bigwigs to be feted by Ansari today

Patna: The Bihar Chamber of Commerce and Industries (Bwill felicitate five entrepreneurs with roots in Bihar, who have made it big globally, as part of its 90th anniversary celebrations on Friday.

Vice-President Hamid

Ansari

, who is in Patna to inaugurate a function to mark the celebrations at Sahu Jain Hall in the BCCI building, will honour the entrepreneurs who include Bennett Coleman & Company Limited's Managing Director Vineet Jain, Alkem Laboratories' chairman Samprada Singh, Vedanta Resources founder and chairman Anil Agarwal, ITC Limited's chairman Y C Deveshwar and Birla Sugar's chairman C S Nopany on behalf of K K Birla.

Four former BCCI presidents, including Maharaja Kamal Singh, P K Agarwal, P L Khaitan and M L Khetan, and ten other functionaries will also be felicitated by the VP on the occasion, according to BCCI secretary general Shashi Mohan.

At least 500 guests are likely to attend the 50-minute inaugural ceremony beginning at 11.30am.

Governor Ram Nath Kovind, chief minister Nitish Kumar and deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will be the special guests. Delegates from the trade bodies of

Jharkhand

and Odisha, which were initially parts of BCCI, have also confirmed their participation.

The function will be followed by a high tea. "A symposium on 'Opportunities of industrial development in Bihar' has also been organised after the high tea," the BCCI functionary said and added the felicitated entrepreneurs would be the main speakers at the symposium.

The anniversary celebrations are set to be a gala affair with at least three seminars scheduled in the next 45 days. While one seminar will be on tourism, another will be on infrastructure.

"The topic for the third seminar is 'Economic condition of eastern states: Kal, aaj aur kal'. We have invited the chief ministers of all eastern states to address this seminar," Mohan said and added a grand cultural function would mark the conclusion of the celebrations.
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