Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his Maharashtra and Rajasthan counterparts — Devendra Fadnavis and Vasundhara Raje were part of the delegation that was led by Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman to Yekaterinburg for INNOPROM-2016, Russia’s largest annual international industrial trade fair, at which India is a partner country this year. The world industrial trade fair was inaugurated on Sunday on a grand note.
China acted as partnership country for INNOPROM last year and Japan will be partnership country for the event next year. The theme this year is ‘Industry plus Internet’ and the main focus of the exhibition will be on 3D printing and digital design.
Earlier, Indian Ambassador in Russia Pankaj Saran explained the Russian economic and political situation to the delegation led by Mr. Naidu.