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Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
Commission for Women
Presentation: Dr. Ranjana Kumari,
President, Women Power Connect
Speakers: Mrs. Shanta Sinha
Prof. V. C. Govindraj
Hon’ble Ms. Komala Krishnamoorty
Q & A
Summing Up and Way Forward
Parallel III - “Diaspora Youth”
Chair: Mr. Madhu Gaud Yashki,
Member of Parliament and
Member of Standing Committee of
MOIA
Presentation: Mr. Yogeshwar
Sangwan, Deputy Secretary, MOIA
Speakers: Mr. Yogendra
Chowdhury
Ms. Poonam Ahluwalia
Hon’ble Ramesh Subramanium
Ms. Priyanka Patnaik
Kulwinder Singh
Q & A
Summing Up and Way Forward
Parallel IV — “Opportunities in
Education”
Chair: Prof. Y. K. Alagh, Vice
Chairman, SPIESR
Presentation: Ms. Anju Banerjee,
Chairman, EdCIL
Speakers: Sunil Kumar
Dr. H.S. Ballal
Mr. Ramachandaran
Ravi Seethapathy
Keynote Address
Q & A
Summing Up and Way Forward
Parallel V — “Assisted Living”
Chair: Dr. Laxminarayan Pandey,
Chairman, Parliamentary Standing
Committee
Presentation: Mr. B.K. Samal, LIC
Housing Finance Ltd.
Keynote Speaker: K. Sridhar, LIC
Speakers: Mr. Jiji Thomson
Mr. P.K.Choudhary-MD, ICRA
Q & A
Summing Up and Way Forward.
Parallel VI: “Commemorating the
Diaspora”
Chair: Mr. Rao Inderjit Singh, MOS
for External Affairs
Presentation: Mr. Malay Mishra,
Joint Secretary, MOIA
Speakers: Ms. Shundell Prasad
Mr. Mahadeo & Mrs. Deerpalsingh
Launch of Book, “Colonial
Emigration Acts” By Ms. Leela
Gujadhur Sarup.
Ms. Leela Gujadhur Sarup
Mr. R. Chander, Netherlands
Dr. M.K.Gautam, Netherlands
Launch of Book “Tears in
Paradise” by Mr. Rajendra Prasad
Mr. Rajendra Prasad
Q&A
Summing Up and Way Forward
Panel Discussion I -”Diaspora &
Political Discourse”
Chair: Mrs Shashi U. Tripathi,
Secretary (West) MEA
Speakers:
Dr. Lenny K. Saith
Mr. Anil Bachoo
Mr. Geroge Shiu Raj
Mr. Baleswar Agarwal
Mr. Ramakrishna Padayachie
Lord Diljit S. Rana
Mr. Sanjay Puri
Dr. Denison Jayasooria
Mr. J.C. Sharma
Summing up by the Chair
Panel Discussion II - “Reporting
on the Diaspora”
Chair: Dr. Sanjaya Baru, Media
Adviser to PM
Speakers: Mr. Paras Ramoutar
Mr. Chidanand Rajghatta
Mr. Sreenath Sreenivasan
Mr. Raju Narisetti
Mr. Ramesh Japra
Ms. Neena Gopal
Summing up by the Chair
Panel Discussion III -“Communal
Harmony & Secularism”
Chair: Mr. Oscar Fernandes
MOS (IC)
Speakers: Mr. Abdul Raouf
Bundhun
Justice A. M. Ebrahim
Mr. Shrikumar Poddar
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