JAIPUR: There was chaos on day 2 of the 10th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the meet here.
Former West Indies cricketer Brian Lara, who was part of the delegation led by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Prasad Bissessar, was asked to sit in a separate room with TV installed with other members. Later the officials from the ministry of overseas Indian affairs came and took them to main hall.
Several NRIs were miffed with the organizers as the main hall of Birla Auditorium, which has seating a seating capacity of 1350 people and around 1550 delegates had reached venue to attend the inaugural session.
The event was chock-a-block by early Sunday morning and many VIP, including, VS Vyas, member of PM economic advisory council and deputy chairman of state planning commission were denied entry.
Speaking at the meet, Singh called for more contribution from NRIs towards the growth of India and said the government would extend all help to NRIs for this.
"The government and people of India greatly recognise and greatly value the important role being played by Indian communities living abroad. The Indian diaspora has much more to contribute towards the building of modern India. We propose to facilitate, encourage and promote this engagement," prime minister said.
Singh further said that amendments have been introduced in the citizenship act to give recognition to the spouses of NRIs abroad. "In the last parliament session, we introduced a bill intended to merge and streamline people of Indian origin and overseas citizens of India scheme by amending the citizenship act.
"This will rectify some of the anomalies in this scheme and provide for an overseas Indian card which will be given to the spouses of such Indians," he said.
On Saturday, and a special pension and life insurance scheme was announced that would benefit over 5 million unskilled and semi-skilled workers employed overseas mostly in Gulf countries on temporary contract visas.
Around 1,500 NRIs from 65 countries are attending the three-day annual conference that aims at attracting overseas Indians to contribute in their ways for the development of the nation.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here on Saturday evening by a special aircraft and was received by Governor Shivraj Patil, chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Union minister Vayalar Ravi at Sanganer airport.
Former West Indies cricketer Brian Lara, who was part of the delegation led by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Prasad Bissessar, was asked to sit in a separate room with TV installed with other members. Later the officials from the ministry of overseas Indian affairs came and took them to main hall.
Several NRIs were miffed with the organizers as the main hall of Birla Auditorium, which has seating a seating capacity of 1350 people and around 1550 delegates had reached venue to attend the inaugural session.
The event was chock-a-block by early Sunday morning and many VIP, including, VS Vyas, member of PM economic advisory council and deputy chairman of state planning commission were denied entry.
Speaking at the meet, Singh called for more contribution from NRIs towards the growth of India and said the government would extend all help to NRIs for this.
"The government and people of India greatly recognise and greatly value the important role being played by Indian communities living abroad. The Indian diaspora has much more to contribute towards the building of modern India. We propose to facilitate, encourage and promote this engagement," prime minister said.
Singh further said that amendments have been introduced in the citizenship act to give recognition to the spouses of NRIs abroad. "In the last parliament session, we introduced a bill intended to merge and streamline people of Indian origin and overseas citizens of India scheme by amending the citizenship act.
"This will rectify some of the anomalies in this scheme and provide for an overseas Indian card which will be given to the spouses of such Indians," he said.
On Saturday, and a special pension and life insurance scheme was announced that would benefit over 5 million unskilled and semi-skilled workers employed overseas mostly in Gulf countries on temporary contract visas.
Around 1,500 NRIs from 65 countries are attending the three-day annual conference that aims at attracting overseas Indians to contribute in their ways for the development of the nation.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here on Saturday evening by a special aircraft and was received by Governor Shivraj Patil, chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Union minister Vayalar Ravi at Sanganer airport.
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