Arun Jaitley to attend World Bank, IMF meetings
aitley will visit New York where he will attend a meeting with the investors in partnership with Bank of America and CII.
New Delhi: Finance minister Arun Jaitley will leave on a week-long official visit to the US on early Monday morning where he will meet US CEOs and participate in the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF.
RBI governor Urjit Patel, economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg and chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian would accompany the minister.
On the first leg of his US visit, Mr Jaitley will visit New York where he will attend a meeting with the investors in partnership with Bank of America and CII. hereafter, the minister will participate in the roundtable meeting of CEOs of USIBC-CII.
He will deliver a lecture on FDI: Achievements and Challenges at Columbia University on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Mr Jaitley will participate in the roundtable investment meet being organised in Boston in collaboration with NIIF, USISPF and FICCI on the subject of Indian Economy — The Road Ahead. Later in the evening, he will deliver a lecture on India’s tax reforms at Harvard University.