A Visakha Declaration would be announced at the end of the third BRICS Urbanisation Forum meeting to be held here from September 14 to 16 highlighting the key deliberations and the way forward to the next forum.
The BRICS meet here is the third of the 95 meetings being held across the country before the eighth annual BRICS summit to be held in Goa from October 15 to 16 and the deliberations here would form part of the summit, Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh S.P. Tucker said after a steering committee meeting he held with Joint Secretaries to the Union Ministry of Urban Development B. Anand and Alok A. Dimri, Collector N. Yuvaraj, Chairman of Visakhapatnam Port Trust M.T. Krishna Babu, Additional DGP N.V. Surendra Babu, Municipal Commissioner Pravin Kumar, Vice-Chairman of VUDA T. Baburao Naidu, Joint Collector J. Nivas, Union Ministry’s representatives P. Kapoor and Devayani Ghosh, and other senior officials on Wednesday.
Creating a stable and productive urban economic system and creating livelihood methods for urban population would be mainly discussed during the meeting.
Around 500 delegates, 100 of them from the other BRICS countries from academic institutions, officials along with representatives of urban financing institutions like KFW, JICA, ADB and World Bank would participate, Mr. Anand said.
