A smiling Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also earned kudos from the nation's over 12 top industrialists for considerable improvement in law and order situation which was crucial to attract investments. Besides, the state leadereship's focus on social empowerment and stability was also acknowledged by them.

The Indian Inc opined that agriculture, food-processing units and tourism would be the three important areas of focus for the turnaround of the state.

The immediate gain for the Nitish government from the conclave was the commitment made by chief mentor of the CII Tarun Das to set up a centre of entrepreneurial excellence in Patna to help aspiring businessmen hone their skills. This was followed by the assurance by FICCI secretary-general Amit Mitra to adopt and set up institutes for vocational training and agro-processing.

Coming out of the meeting, Nitish disclosed that 12 sectoral groups, christended as Abiding Initiatives, have been constituted covering different sectors which would meet regularly and give suggestions. The sectors are agriculture, urban designing, public-private partnership, IT, energy, health, poverty alleviation, rural economy and tourism.

The captains of Indian industries, who as members of BDIC took part in the meeting, represented Mahindra and Mahindra, Aditya Birla Group, Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals, Apeeejay Surendra Group, Gujrat Ambuja Cements Ltd, ICICI, Max India Ltd, Tata Consultancy Service among others.