Munda to lecture at Columbia University

Chief Minister Arjun Munda has been invited by the Columbia University to deliver a lecture on ‘Democratically running small states in India: The perspective of the leader’ on October 18. Munda leaves on October 14. From the University of Columbia,Munda will go to Toronto to attract investments,said Munda’s Principal Secretary D K Tiwari.

After returning from his trip to Berlin where the state had set up a pavilion at the World Trade Fair,Munda had claimed that “half a dozen investors,including Mercedes Benz,had evinced interest in setting up their plants in Jharkhand”. Six months on,no investor has turned up.

A team led by Munda will participate in India Show in Toronto followed by a seminar on industry to be organised by the Canadian government on October 19.