Lead-up Conference to 3rd Annual Meeting of AIIB

Question: Recently, two day lead-up Conference in order to build-up the momentum for the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was held at which of the following palces?
(a) Visakhapatnam
(b) Chennai
(c) Lucknow
(d) New Delhi
Answer: (c) 
Related Facts:

  • On April 3rd, 2018, two day second lead-up Conference in order to build-up the momentum for the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
  • The theme of this was “Enhancing Port and Coastal Infrastructure: A Primer on Potential Areas”.
  • The two-day Regional Conference is being organized by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India in collaboration with AIIB, CII and Research and Infrastructure System (RIS) for Developing Countries.
  • Professor Amithab Kundu, Distinguished Fellow, RIS chaired the Inaugural Session of the two-day conference.
  • Around 150 delegates representing different industry, academic and research institutions are participating among others to deliberate upon the major bottlenecks in the quest for developing blue economy in the country in order to achieve higher and inclusive economic growth.
  • It is notable that India has identified more than 100 waterways under Sagarmala Project in order to lessen the logistic stress on road/rail freight transport in the country.
  • Central government has initiated 70 to 80 projects under PPP mode for Costal Infrastructure Development.
  • In Andhra Pradesh, Gangavaram and Krishnapatnam are being developed under PPP mode.
  • Visakhapatnam Port is one of the few ports in the country which have highest net-worth in terms of development.
  • There are five new AIIB funded projects which are underway in India with investments worth US$ 1.1 billion.

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