NEW DELHI: India is set to host heads of state from Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and Poland along with 25 ministers of trade and industry from countries including Japan and Germany for its mega ‘Make in India’ week starting February 13. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be interacting with the global leaders and make a pitch for Make in India, which is in its second year.The six-day long pitch for greater manufacturing in India is being held in Mumbai and is likely to see participation from 1,500 foreign companies and business delegations from 65 countries. The prime minister in his Independence Day address in 2014 from the ramparts of Red Fort had given out a call to investors to ‘Come, Make in India’. “This is the biggest such event we are hosting and it is taking Make in India campaign to the next level. We will showcase both the soft and the hard power of India to the world,” said a senior government official.The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) formally launched Make in India campaign with various government departments in December 2014. The campaign has the target of lifting manufacturing share in the economy to around 25% by 2020 from the current around 16%. India would showcase its manufacturing prowess at the six-day long event through exhibitions and special presentations by states.Three states--Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Haryana--and countries including Japan and Poland will host sectorspecific seminars highlighting opportunities to Make in India. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will also present the way forward for Make in India.The Make in India week will focus on 10 key sectors for manufacturing, including aerospace and defence, automobile, construction, food processing, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, information technology and textiles. Some of the key programmes planned around the event include exhibitions of innovative products and manufacturing processes, hackathon and sessions on urban planning. The Make in India programme was launched on September 25, 2014, in the presence of over 120 CEOs of major Indian companies by the prime minister.The government has had some success in this respect. Some mobile hand set manufacturers have started to assemble in India, marking a start to eventually fullfledged manufacturing. Contracts have been awarded for the manufacture of diesel and electric locomotives for the railways. In defence, the government is giving out orders for local manufacture of armaments that were earlier being imported.