Vice-President closes the 31st CII Partnership Summit at Visakhapatnam

13 November 2026

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan spoke at the valedictory of the 31st CII Partnership Summit, held this year at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The summit's theme this year was 'Navigating the New World Order – Trade, Technology and Trust'. He said Andhra Pradesh had drawn 714 investment projects worth over ₹22 lakh crore since June 2024, and linked the State's Swarna Andhra 2047 vision to the national goal of Viksit Bharat 2047. He described self-reliance as building domestic capability while integrating more deeply with global markets, and named artificial intelligence, semiconductors and quantum computing among the technologies that matter most.