PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS 2008
Venue: Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
Date: 07 - 09 January, 2008

Trade & Industry Exhibition with participation from Corporate, Financial Institutions, State Government's, NGO's and others will run concurrently at the back lawns of Vigyan Bhawan. A new feature will be a business partnership - Marketplace hosted by Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre.

The Exhibition will provide an exclusive showcase of India to overseas Indian delegates comprising the largest gathering of the Global Indian Family. About more than 2000 Overseas Indian delegates are expected to participate from across 70 countries and more than 1200 Indian delegates would provide a focused target audience for the Exhibitions.

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Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs is a young ministry. Established in May 2004 as the 'Ministry of Non-Residential Indians' Affairs' it was renamed the 'Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs' (MOIA) in September 2004. Acknowledging the welfare of the overseas Indian mainstream, the mission of the Ministry is to promote, nurture and sustain a mutually beneficial and symbitic relationship between India and its Diaspora. The focus of the Ministry is to establish an institutional framework to benefit from networks with and among Overseas Indians based on three value proposition:

• Through multi-tasking market driven entities spawned by MOIA and with knowledge partners from the private sector.
• States will be stakeholder partner as Overseas Indian supposed initiatives have to be anchored in the States.
• MOIA will stay small, facilitate activity on the ground and drive policy changes.

Overseas Indians are essentially consumers of products and services across the economic, social and cultural space constituting a heterogeneous and differentiated group. MOIA works with market partners to identify and fill gaps in the provision of these products and services for the group.

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