Kochi, Feb. 21 -- The two-day Invest Kerala Global Summit (IKGS 2025) began on an exciting note here on Friday with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asserting that the investors coming to Kerala will not face any hurdle in their way to leverage the state's strategic advantages to set up industries.

"We have assured that no investor coming to Kerala will have to face the cobweb of procedural delays and meet barriers of red tape," Vijayan said in his opening address to the summit, attended by the Union Ministers and business leaders from India and abroad.

Noting that the summit is taking place when Kerala's investment scenario is on the cusp of a historic transformation, the Chief Minister said "we have made major strides in simplifying proc...