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Ratan Tata to attend first dalit trade fair
Shobhan Saxena, TNN | Sep 26, 2011, 01.57AM IST
NEW DELHI: In a first, the three-day trade fair to be organized by
dalit entrepreneurs and businessmen in December will be attended by
Ratan Tata. "We had sent an invitation to Ratan Tata and he has
confirmed that he will attend our conclave and exhibition," said
Milind Kamble, chairman of Dalit India Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.
The event, beginning December 16, will be held at Bandra Kurla Complex
in Mumbai. DICCI, whose mission statement calls for "fighting caste
with capital", will showcase about half-a-dozen dalits who started as
small entrepreneurs but now are running companies with multinational
operations.
"The presence of Ratan Tata has great symbolic value as it will
signify the change happening in India, and it will give great hope to
dalits that the country's top business houses are now ready to make
them partners in trade. It will also encourage other industrialists to
engage with companies owned by dalits," said Kamble, the Pune-based
businessman who was one of the brains behind the formation of DICCI in
2005. "The event will be a milestone. It will turn out to be a new
narrative on changing India."
The event will host more than 200 dalit companies involved in hardcore
manufacturing, construction, trading, health, hospitality and the
knowledge industry.
"Our friends in the US are also trying to get Robert Johnson, the
first black billionaire, to visit the fair as the guest of honour,"
Kamble said.
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