India, Feb. 20 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union cabinet ministers, leading industrialists, senior diplomats and business delegations from several countries will attend the two-day 'Advantage Assam 2.0' infrastructure-investment summit in Guwahati next week.

PM Modi will be part of the inaugural session, which will include speeches by industrialists Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Anil Agarwal, Savitri Jindal and N Chandrasekaran, among others, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

"The response has been very good and till now over 18,000 people have registered for the event. We have received proposals for more than 1,500 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and are looking at investments beyond Rs.1 lakh crore," Sarma said. ...