Kumari Selja to inaugurate Cityscape India

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Kumari Selja, the Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, will be inaugurating this year’s Cityscape India conference, which is due to take place at Bombay on 8-10 December 2008. Cityscape India is an annual international networking exhibition and conference focusing on commercial architecture, property investment and development and attended by the most significant investors, developers, architects and consultants.

After the official opening the Honourable Minister will address local, regional and international delegates during the opening of the Cityscape India Conference. Her speech entitled ‘Affordable Housing For All In India’ will outline the initiatives to develop residential property, not only for India’s burgeoning middle class, which is now estimated at 325 million people, but also for India’s lower class, which still represents approximately 70% of India’s 1.2 billion population.

Cityscape India 2007 officially became the largest business-to-business real estate event in India attracting over 5,000 participants from 38 countries celebrating the best in real estate, architecture, urban planning and design. The event was launched in 2007 to provide the country’s real estate sector, now valued at over $15 billion, a networking platform where domestic developers can source international investment contacts. It is also a platform where international developers can meet Indian investors. This year, Cityscape India is set to welcome more than 8,000 participants from around the world. “In addition, leveraging its relationships in the global investment market place, Cityscape will reach out to over 250,000 senior decision makers seeking to invest in one of the world’s fastest growing economies,” said Graham Wood, Exhibition Director.

New this year two parallel conferences entitled ‘International Real Estate Investment and Development’ and ‘Infrastructure Finance & Investment’ will take place alongside the exhibition. Recognised as India’s leading networking conference, participants include, the Trump Organisation of the United States, Reliance of India and Nakheel of the United Arab Emirates. Donald Trump Junior, Executive Vice President of Development and Acquisitions for the Trump Organisation, spoke at last year’s Cityscape India, and is looking forward to returning. He added: “Cityscape India has certainly come in at the right time to provide a quality business-to-business networking platform.” There will also be an Infrastructure Conference addressing one of the most important topics in India with respected names presenting their experiences and knowledge of effectively overcoming challenges to raise equity and build public-private partnerships.

The Cityscape India Awards will honour leading real estate professionals and companies for their contribution to the industry. The award categories include: Most Innovative Finance; Best Real Estate Marketing Campaign Award, Best Corporate Social Responsibility Project, Best Urban Design and Master Planning, Best Developer Retail Project; Best Developer Commercial/Office Project; Best Developer Hospitality Project; Best Developer Residential Project Award and Best Developer Mixed Use Project.

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