Guwahati, Feb. 27 -- Newspaper headlines on February 26, 2025, screamed, "Summit season sees nearly Rs 100 lakh crore investment pledges by India Inc." State governments of most aspirational states in India appear to have found December, January, and February to be the ideal months for conducting global investors' summits. It was reported that in just the first two months of 2025, as many as six state governments - of Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, Kerala, and Assam - organized such events and announced investment commitments from potential investors to the tune of Rs 60.5 lakh crore.

In December 2024, potential investors gathered in Rajasthan for the "Rising Rajasthan" event conducted by the Government of Rajasthan. The ...