Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended the day with a dinner with more than 40 executives of Fortune 500 companies at New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel, where he is staying.

After his interaction, the PM tweeted, "My interaction with Fortune 500 CEOs was on investment opportunities in India & why they must come & @makeinindia!"

"Reform in governance is my No. 1 priority. We are for simplified procedures, speedy decision making, transparency and accountability," PM Modi said. Listing the sectors opened up for investment, he invited the CEOs to Make in India.

The event was coordinated by the Fortune magazine and the interactive session preceding the dinner moderated by its editor, Alan Murray.

The dinner was preceded by a series of one-on-one meetings between a group of top CEOs and PM Modi. Among them was Mike Bloomberg, business tycoon and former mayor of New York, Ajay Banga, CEO of Mastercard and the head of US-India Business Council and Marillyn Hewson, chairman of the aerospace and defence giant Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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