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newsdiaspora studiesat Goa uniVersitythe union Human Resource Development(HRD) Ministry hasdecided to set up a chair onIndian diaspora studies at GoaUniversity, Goa’s commissioner forNon-Resident Indian (NRI) affairsEduardo Faleiro said on July 5.Speaking in Panaji, Faleiro announcedthat HRD Minister Kapil Sibal hadagreed to establish a chair on thediaspora community at the state universityin Goa, a state with a long history ofemigration.“I have requested Goa GovernorDr S.S. Sidhu, who is the Chancellor ofGoa University, to advise the universityin this regard so that we have a qualityinstitution for study and research onthe Indian diaspora in general and onthe Goan diaspora, in particular,” saidFaleiro.The chair on diaspora studies willdeal with the questions and issues regardingthe Indian diaspora (Goan diasporaincluded) in academic depth and ina comparative context.It will also study migration in othercountries, he added.Faleiro said the University GrantsCommission (UGC) had already made apart payment to the Goa University towardsthe creation of the chair.“The study on migration in all its diverseaspects is one of the mostfascinating areas of research. A verylarge number of universities abroadhave this facility,” Faleiro observed,adding that the university was the firstin India to establish a chair on diasporastudies.Incidentally, Goa is the second statein India after Kerala to conduct a surveyon migration of its working populationto other countries for employment, primarilyin the Gulf region.india opens culturalcentre in seoulDr. Karan Singh, President, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, inaugurating theIndian Culture Centre in Seoul, South Korea.India has taken yet another step in furthering its culturaldiplomacy in South-East Asia with the setting up of a newIndian cultural centre in Seoul.President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations(ICCR) Dr. Karan Singh, recently on a week-long visit toSeoul, inaugurated the centre located at the prestigiousSejong Centre on July 1. Dr. Singh also delivered a lecture atthe Korea Foundation and opened a cultural programmewith eminent artistes from India performing on the occasion.Dr Singh’s visit was part of the general Look-East Policyof the ICCR that has resulted in the opening of as many asnine Indian cultural centres in South and South-East Asia.This was part of the recommendations made by the PrimeMinister’s Global Advisory Council.“I bring with me warm greetings from the people of Indiato the people of the shining ‘Lamp of the East’, as Korea wasfamously and fondly described by Rabindranath Tagore,”Dr Singh said. “In Korea, our heritage dates back to thePrincess of Ayodhya who came here in 48 AD, married KingKin Suro of Gimhae and acquired fame as Queen Heo,” Dr.Singh said before leaving the country.10 Pravasi Bharatiya July 2011
indian top farmerin GhanaForced by circumstances to change his line of work, Harchavari Singh Cheema took towhat he knew the best — farming. Today, his farm exports 120 tonnes of vegetables a yearformer Mumbai textileworker HarchavariSinghCheema, who cameto Ghana 40 years ago, istoday a celebrated farmerand one of the most successfulIndians in the WestAfrican country.From exporting about 70tonnes in the intial years,Cheema’s Param Farms nowexports 120 tonnes of vegetablesa year. “I arrived inGhana in 1972 to work as amanager for the then GlamourStores, a supermarket chain, butsome years later when the country’seconomy started going down, the textileindustry was affected adversely. So, I decidedto do something on my own,” saysCheema, 64. “I initially started a poultryfarm at Gomoa Pamfokrom in the centralregion of the country,” Cheema adds.Unfortunately, the poultry sector alsostarted having problems, so he started asmall textile-manufacturing unit in Accra,Ghana’s capital. “But this also sufferedbecause of the trade liberalisation initiatedby the government in the 1980s.”“Coming from a farming background, Ihad no choice but to get back to farming,again. I decided to produce 25 differentvarieties of Asian vegetables for export toEurope,” he adds.Cheema was declared the Best NationalFarmer in the vegetable sector and in2004, won the Best National Farmeraward in the food crop sector.From a small farm in Weija in Accra, hemoved to Bawjiase in the central region,Akatsi in the Volta region, and Old AkradeFormer Ghana President Jerry John Rawlings (left) presenting theBest National Farmer Award to Harchavari Singh Cheema (centre)and Nsawam in the eastern region.“The need to have farms in differentareas was necessary because we did notwant to fall victim to the vagaries ofweather. Thus, the spread of farmsenabled us to succeed even when theweather failed in some areas,” saysCheema.Asked why he chose to remain in thecountry, he says, “Ghana is a nice placeto live in and my children were attendingschool, something I did not want todisturb by returning to India.”Cheema describes working in Ghana asa very good experience. “The people arenice and if you do a good job, pay yourworkers proper wages and meet your taxobligations, you would never encounterany problem.”Impressed by his success, other Indianinvestors, looking for opportunities inGhana, have sought his assistance toestablish businesses here, he says.Cheema and a group of investors are inthe process of establishing a packagingcompany at Tema, near Accra.rbi to reGulate mfisThe government has proposed to bringall micro finance institutions (MFIs)under the ambit of the Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI). The central bank will havethe powers to formulate policies for thesector and regulate it, the FinanceMinistry has said in the draft of TheMicro Finance Institutions (Developmentand Regulation) Bill, released on July 7for public comment.The earlier Bill of 2007, which haslapsed, had sought to regulate onlythose MFIs not under the ambit of anylaw. So, banks and a few categories ofnon-banking finance companies (NBFCs)were kept outside the purview ofthe Bill.The revised Bill proposes to empowerRBI to issue directions to MFIs on margincaps, tenure of loans, periodicity ofrepayment schedules, levy of processingfees, interest and life insurancepremium, amongst others. It will also beallowed to specify the maximum annualpercentage rate that can be charged byan MFI on the financial assistancegranted to any client.July 2011 Pravasi Bharatiya 11
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