Thursday, January 3, 2008

CREDAI`s 7th National Real Estate Convention from Jan 7 `08

Shri Kamal Nath, Shri Jaipal S Reddy and Kumari Selja to address NATCON 2008

CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India) today announced that its 7th National real estate convention - Natcon 2008 would begin on January 7th, 2008.  The Chief guest at the Convention is Kamal Nath - Hon'ble Minister of Commerce & Industry. Jaipal S Reddy, Hon'ble Minister of Urban Development and Kumari Selja - Hon'ble Minister of State, (IC), Housing and Poverty Alleviation would be making the Inaugural and Presidential Address respectively, amongst other prominent dignitaries. The convention that has the theme "Real Estate for all" is going to be held from January 7-9, 2008 at Hotel Ashok, New Delhi.

Natcon 2008 is CREDAI's attempt to bring together developers, real estate professionals, policy makers, financial institutions and investors under one roof to debate, discuss and explore the new avenues in the real estate sector in India. All deliberations and panel discussions would revolve around various subjects affecting the realty sector, viz. - FDI/SEZ Policy attitude towards Real Estate, Policy and Regulatory Environment, Real Estate Indices and Developer Rating, Reforms in Real Estate: Taking Stock, Affordable Housing: Making it a reality with PPP, Future of Real Estate in next five years- Impact of Real Estate on Growth of Economic Development of India, The 21st century Developer: Pushing the Envelope, Shifting ownership patterns and influence of FDI. The convention is actively supported by the Ministry of Urban Development Government of India & Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Government of India.

A galaxy of speakers from Government, Real Estate, Housing Finance Institutions, FDI will also be expressing their views and sharing knowledge including Mr. Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC, Shri M Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India, Dr Harjit S Anand, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Mr. Sunil Rohokale, MD and CEO, ICICI Home Finance Co Ltd, Mr. S. Sridhar, Chairman and MD, NHB, Shri Sunil Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

According to Ranjit Naiknavare, Member - Natcon, ¬¬CREDAI, "We are proud to announce our seventh national convention which is reflective of the successes that we have achieved over the last six years. With each successive year we have been getting a tremendous response and this year too we expect 700 to 800 delegates to participate in the Convention."

"We have deliberately chosen this year's theme as 'Real estate for all' in keeping with the heterogeneity in lifestyles across the country.  We believe that the real estate sector will play a phenomenal part in the economy in the years to come and Natcon 2008 is our earnest attempt to collectively deliberate on how we could eradicate the stumbling blocks in the real estate industry and streamline the course of action for the years to come." He further added.

NATCON is focused on meaningful discussions encompassing real estate that either enhance the understanding of a subject or seek solutions. The convention will address issues afflicting the real estate community on this day. Beginning from financing to customer care to affordable housing to taxation, all concerns will be attended to by expert speakers, based on their experience and expertise in their specific fields of real estate. The focus of the convention largely remains identifying the issues in the sector and working towards their solutions. NATCON also outlines the future of real estate in the country and reckons its contribution in appending India's global stature.

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