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Dy. PM of Singapore to be
Chief Guest for PBD-2007
New Delhi, December 22, 2006
The Overseas Indian Affairs Minister, Shri Vayalar Ravi
said here today that Prof. S. Jayakumar, Deputy Prime Minister
of Singapore will be the Chief Guest of Pravasi Bharatiya
Divas 2007. Shri Dato S Samy Vellu, Cabinet Minister of Works,
Government of Malaysia and President, Malaysian Indian
Congress will be leading large Malaysian delegation for PBD.
He also informed that some notable names, who have since
confirmed for PBD are; Shri. Sam Pitroda, Chairman Knowledge
Commission, Shri. Apurv Bagri, Chairman Tie, UK, Dr. Denison
Jaisurya, Executive Director Social Strategic and Shri. Dato G
Palanivel, Deputy Minister of Women, Family & Community
Development, Government of Malaysia.
Shri Ravi further said that the Prime Minister of India
will inaugurate Pravasi Bharatiya Divas on 7 January 2007 and
it will culminate with valedictory address and conferment of
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by Rashtrapatiji on 9 January
2007. Both these sessions will also be held at Vigyan Bhawan.
The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has negotiated highly
reasonable rates for hotel accommodation in Delhi. For
example, single room is available in Hotel Taj Palace @ 120 US
dollar. Delhi Government has also waived of the luxury tax for
the delegates who are registering on-line, he added.
The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is the annual flagship event of
the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs. The event aims to
connect more than 25 million overseas Indians and to bring the
expertise and knowledge of the Indian overseas community to
India and integrating it into India’s development process. The
forthcoming PBD is being organized with the institutional
partnership of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The
Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi is the state
partner. Venues for forthcoming PBD will be Vigyan Bhawan for
the conference and exhibition and Talkatora Stadium for
cultural evenings.
Theme of the Fifth PBD is ‘Rooting for the roots – Meeting
India’s Social development Challenges’ with the objective to
encourage Overseas Indians to be part of the socio-economic
development of India. The focus will be on social areas and
issues. The Union governments and State governments will be
fully involved in the sessions so that participants can
directly interact with government representatives and address
their concerns and have exposure to the government’ programmes
for the common man and how they could be involved in these.The
focus areas are Education, Healthcare, Women, Youth,
Investment. There will be 30 sessions on variety of topics
where a large number of Speakers from India as well as
Diaspora Countries are going to participate. There will be
Regional Sessions on Gulf, USA, Canada, South, South East and
East Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia Pacific and Caribbean.
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