Kolkata, April 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to attend the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS), a mega show of the West Bengal government inviting investments from the industrialists across the globe, which is being unveiled on Wednesday after a gap of two years owing to global pandemic. Barring 2020 and 2021, the flagship business summit of the Mamata Banerjee-led government has been held since 2017. Banerjee had invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the summit when she called on him in November 2021. As per information so far, PM Narendra Modi may not make it to the city, an unverified report said on Wednesday. State Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will inaugurate the two-day summit at 2 pm on Wednesday. The sixth edition of the 2-day business event in which state governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will bein attendance alongside the Chief Minister and other dignitaries will include state industry minister Partha Chatterjee and CM’s principal advisor Amit Mitra (former finance minister). A state government report said the business summit will have plenary and sectoral sessions and business-to-government and business-to-business interactions, apart from providing digital space for exhibitions and networking. The Chief Minister has decided to stay at Eco-Tourism Island, near the venue of the summit at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre for the next two days. On Tuesday evening, the government had hosted a dinner for the guests and other dignitaries at Milan Mela Ground, where the Chief Minister interacted with some of the delegates and industrialists and convey her government’s open door policy for setting up industries. According to the state government, in 2019, BGBS had seen the participation of more than 4,000 delegates, including 450 international delegates from 35 countries, and the business proposed in the earlier five editions of the BGBS amounts to Rs 12,35,578 crore. The summit will have, besides plenary and sectoral sessions, it will have business-to-government and business-to-business interactions, apart from providing digital space for exhibitions and networking. The focus sectors are infrastructures, agriculture and allied activities, industries, including micro, small, medium enterprises, and services such as health and education, tourism, IT& IteS, and mining. PC-SJC BM