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PM Modi pitches India as long-term investment destination at Australia-India CEOs Forum

New Delhi, July 9 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted India's growing economic potential and invited Australian businesses to deepen investments as he jointly addressed the Australia-India CEOs Forum and the Economic Roadmap Business event with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Melbourne on Thursday.
The two events brought together leading Indian and Australian CEOs and business leaders, representatives of major Australian superannuation funds and institutional investors, and Vice-Chancellors of leading Australian universities.
Addressing the CEOs Forum, Prime Minister Modi said India's strong economic growth, policy reforms, digital transformation and expanding innovation ecosystem were creating new business opportunities for Australian partners. Stressing the complementarities between the Indian and Australian economies, he pointed to vast opportunities across manufacturing, clean energy, critical minerals, mining, infrastructure, urban development, aviation, logistics, advanced technologies, artificial intelligence, fintech, food processing and the digital economy.
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