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MEA to hold panel discussions on Gulf Cooperation Council-India in run up to Pravasi Bharati Divas Convention @MOS MEA External Affairs Ministry will today organise two virtual panel discussions on Gulf Cooperation Council-India in the run up to the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention to be held next month. According to an official statement, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan will address the two panel discussions. About 15 eminent panellists from India and abroad will be participating in the panel discussions. These discussions would feed into the plenary sessions of the main PBD Convention scheduled to be held in January 2021.
Saturday, April 17 2021
Future for Indians in the Gulf region
New Delhi – Ministry of External Affairs is organising two virtual panel discussions on Gulf Cooperation Council-India in the run up to the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention to be held next month.
The first Panel Discussion will provide a platform to discuss the ways and means in which the historic people-to-people ties and excellent political and economic relations between India and GCC could be used to contribute to the vision of a self-reliant India on the path towards a 5 trillion dollar economy. The discussions will also focus on the role that the large and successful Indian diaspora in the GCC can play in realizing this vision.
Yusuff Ali M.A., chairman and managing director of the UAE-based LuLu Group, has been nominated to the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Samman Awards (PBSA) jury committee by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, on the occasion of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention 2021.
The awards recognize overseas Indians who have made significant contributions either in India or abroad in various fields.
Other members who were nominated by the Indian prime minister are: Professor Manjulal Bhargava of the department of mathematics, Princeton University; Ramesh Babu, group managing director of Kiboko Group of Companies in Uganda; Shayarande, secretary of nonprofit organization Indian Council for International Cooperation; and Nivruti Rai, country head of Intel India. A notification in this regard has been issued in the official gazette.