Hyderabad: Telangana IT & Industries Minister KT Rama Rao on Thursday invited a world leader in missiles and missile systems MBDA, to explore prospective collaboration opportunities for manufacturing in Telangana.

KTR held a formal meeting with MBDA’s management team comprising of Directors Boris Solomiac, Pol Neil Le Livec and Senior Vice President Asia and India Jean-Marc Peyraud, who is in Paris visit.

The Telangana delegation also held a series of meetings and interacted with various CEOs and industry heads in Paris. He also met with Aero Campus Aquitaine Sales Director Xavier Audion. Air Attache at the Indian Embassy in France, Air Commodore Hilal Ahmad was also a part of the meeting.

He had a meeting with Indian Ambassador to France Jawed Ashraf. He thanked the Ambassador and the Indian Embassy in Paris for the warm welcome extended to the Telangana delegation. KTR also called on Cosmetic Valley’s Deputy CEO incharge International Strategy Franckie Chereau in Paris. The minister highlighted India’s cosmetics market and its substantial growth. He discussed the opportunities to manufacture cosmetics in Telangana.

Cosmetic Valley is a cluster of about 800 companies, creating approximately 70K jobs and $11 billion in revenue; 7 universities, 136 colleges, 200 research laboratories for 8,600 researchers, and 100 research projects.

Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan, Aerospace & Defence Director Praveen and Digital Media Director Dileep Konatham also attended the meetings.