The Global Partnership Summit (GPS), a four-day international event to be attended by government leaders, think-tanks, policy-makers, industry captains, social workers, business leaders, entrepreneurs and youth leaders from the world over, will roll out here from Monday. With 3,000 delegates participating, this initiative towards greater cooperation among the US, India and Japan will discuss an Alternative Development Model (ADM) framework and will strive to evolve energy efficient, environmentally responsible and sustainable model that will also contribute towards empowering societies across the globe.
The GPS is chaired by Japan's Liberal Democratic Party's secretary-general Toshihiro Nikai and co-chaired by Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Chandra. The US-Japan-India trilateral relationship was flagged off in Tokyo in 2006 by then Japanese Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, now the Prime Minister of Japan. It led to GPS that held its first edition in 2011. According to GPS founder-chairman Vibhav Kant Upadhyay, it has now transformed into a platform to integrate ideologies, ideas, initiatives, projects, people and policies. The organisers said through core values such as co-operation and inclusivity, the GPS will aim to establish models of development that will focus on empowerment and sustainability.
The event will focus on building an agriculture corridor from Amritsar in Punjab to Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu to allow agriculture produce reach anywhere in India within 24 hours.
This step, once realised is expected to raise incomes of farmers. The GPS founder-chairman Upadhyay, who also heads India Centre Foundation (ICF), said that the Summit would also focus on India-Japan-Africa partnership. "Africa has natural resources in abundance. China is already there. But their model is based on exclusivity and exploitation. People there now want partnership and participation. India and Japan will build partnerships and an inclusive model," he said.
In a message, Chairman of GPS Toshihiro Nikai said the overriding philosophy of the summit was 'Omoiyari', a social intelligence that allows us to be compassionate, considerate and focus on the power of the collective. "Together we can change the course of development in the world, and together we can make a difference," he said.
Stressing on the need for such events, GPS Co-Chairman & Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Chandra said the prerequisite of a sustainable and empowered world order was a process of close interactions between the economic and cross-cultural systems. "Global Partnership Summit is an iconic platform where world leaders and influencers converge to set new paradigms of an order that creates opportunities for steadily accelerating economic growth and equitable social development for present and future generations," he said. He expected the Summit to bring out the best of the best in business, governance and civil society.
"This summit is going to be drawing on the expertise and experience of world leaders in government, business and civil society. This can only lead to a win-win situation for all concerned. I welcome the opportunity to work and partner with my colleagues and industry leaders from all over the world that are going to be present here. I look forward to welcoming leaders from all over the world and to an extremely successful summit. I look forward to an extremely engaging summit," he added.
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