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Government to build strong partnership with the Overseas Indian Community - Vayalar Ravi
Posted On : 2010-01-08 02:02:05( TIMEZONE : IST )
The Government has taken several initiatives to build strong partnership with Overseas Indian Community. Efforts are being made to develop an inclusive agenda for engaging them to provide wide range roles and fulfill expectations of the NRIs. This was stated by Shri Vayalar Ravi, Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs while addressing the inaugural session of 8th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas here today. He said that the meet has been organized to provide effective platform for interaction with NRIs and offer them opportunities for collaborations and partnerships on a wide variety of initiatives taken by the Indian Government.
Highlighting the initiatives taken in the recent years to strengthen India's engagements with its overseas community, the Minister said that over 500 thousand OCI cards (overseas citizenship of India) have been issued since 2006 and the Government is working on conferring benefits on OCI card holders to enable them to live and work in India. An Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre to provide a single window for overseas Indian investors has also been established. He expressed the hope that some similar opportunity provided by the country would facilitate the NRIs to partner with the country in their chosen area of work.
Appraising the delegates about the detailed agenda of the meet, the Minister said that the various sessions spread over two days would provide the opportunity to PIOs to articulate their region specific interests and concerns. That would help the government to understand better the needs of NRIs and to develop appropriate policies and programmes to meet their requirements and expectations, he added. Shri Ravi also said that the meet would help NRIs to understand the important steps being taken by the various state governments in India for their benefit.
Over 1500 delegates from about 55 countries are participating in the two day's meet. It will have six parallel sessions dealing with economic, social and cultural dimensions of relationship with NRIs. Union Ministers of all important infrastructure ministries and social sectors will address the meet to appraise of the government's programmes and policies.