With the flag-off of the India-ASEAN Car Rally in Bangkok as a
symbol of ASEAN’s connectivity with India, Embassy of India in
association with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organized a
business seminar on the theme of “ASEAN-India Connectivity: Promoting
Business Linkages between ASEAN and India’s North-East’ on 3rd December,
2012 at Centara Grand, Centralworld, Bangkok. This seminar was
organized as part of commemorations to mark 20 years of India-ASEAN
partnership and was one of the marker events in Bangkok for the Car
Rally. Focus sectors for this seminar were Construction, Food
Processing, Hospitality, Tourism and Skill Development, Automotive
Components, Chemicals, Retail, Logistics, Transport etc. Eminent
speakers included:
(i) H.E. Mr Boonsong Teriyapirom, Minister of Commerce, Government of the Kingdom of Thailand.
(ii) H.E. Mr. Anil Wadhwa, Ambassador of India.
(iii) Mr. Sanjay Kirloskar, Chairman, CII ASEAN / ANZ Regional
Committee and Chairman & Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers
Limited.
(iv) Mr. Chen Namchaisiri, Vice Chairman, Federation of Thai Industries.
Presentations on Roadmap for ASEAN-India connectivity were made. The
seminar saw a strong participation from nearly 170 business persons who
later participated in business-to-business session.