Thursday May 22, 02:37 AM
Strong Punjab contingent for 'India Calling' in Canada
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By State Bureau
Punjab will send a strong and high- powered delegation to represent the state at the India Calling conference in Canada from June 14 to 19 this year. The Conference is being organized at Vancouver and Toronto. The delegation, to be led by a cabinet minister, would comprise leading lights from the world of trade, commerce, industry, agriculture, education, literature, healthcare, infrastructure development, NRI welfare and information technology. The decision was taken after the Canadian high commissioner in India, David Malone called on the Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal here this morning. Disclosing this, Harcharan Bains, media advisor to Punjab chief minister said that although this year's conference would focus on education, ICT, alterative sources of energy and life sciences, Punjab would use this opportunity both to showcase the advances made by the state in various spheres of development as well as to step up the state government's bonding with the Punjabi diaspora in Canada. In addition, the delegation would also seek to attract material and intellectual inputs from different fields to reinforce its own thrust towards achieving global standards for the people of the state, said Bains. Meanwhile, the Punjab chief secretary, Ramesh Inder Singh has said that the composition of the delegation would also reflect the state government's efforts towards fully implementing the decisions taken at the NRI Sammelan held at Chandigarh and Jalandhar earlier this year. One of the decisions taken at the Sammelan was to hold 'Sangat Darshans' to redress the problems of the NRIs at the places of their settlement.
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