exposition of the sacred kapilavastu relics in sri lanka

60 Pages·2012·14.8 MB·English

Bi-monthly Newsletter of the High Commission of India, Colombo
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EXPOSITION OF THE SACRED KAPILAVASTU RELICS IN SRI LANKA
C O N T E N T S
Shri Pranab Mukherjee sworn in as the Adi Vel procession of Sammangodu
13th President of India 3 Sri Kathirvelayutha Swamy 38
Prime Minister’s visit to Iran to attend Bilateral meetings of the Hon'ble Speaker
XVI NAM Summit 5 of Lok Sabha in Colombo
September 13, 2012 39
VISITS
Inauguration of 58th Commonwealth
State Visit of President of Tajikistan to India 7 Parliamentary Conference 39
State Visit of President of Palestine to India 7 Arrival of Indian Delegation
for 58th CPC (In Pics) 41
Visit of H. E. President of Sri Lanka to India 8
Reception at India House in honour
Visit of Hon'ble Jairam Ramesh, Minister of of Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Sabha (In Pics) 41
Rural Development and Drinking Water &
Sanitation, Government of India, to Sri Lanka 9 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Visit of Hon’ble Anand Sharma, Minister of FLIGHT TO GLORY 42
Commerce, Industry & Textiles of India to
Sri Lanka from 2-5 August, 2012 11 Women behind the rockets 45
Inauguration of 'The India Show' in Colombo 13 BILATERAL BEAT
The India Show In Pics 15 India announces greater market access
for Sri Lanka in Garment Sector 45
66th INDEPENDENCE DAY OF INDIA
India enhances engagement with
66th Independence Day of India Sri Lanka in Textile Sector 46
Celebrations in Sri Lanka 17
Visit of High Commissioner to
Message from High Commmissioner the Northern Province 47
H.E. Ashok K. Kantha, on the occasion EXPOSITION OF THE 14-22
of India’s 66th Independence Day 9
India to undertake Construction of a SACRED
200-bed Ward Complex at District Hospital, KAPILAVASTU RELICS
Independence Day celebrations at
Vavuniya through grant assistance of
India House 21 IN SRI LANKA
LKR 200 million 48
Independence Day celebrations at
Second phase of Indian Housing
Consulates General of India 21
Project gets underway 49

Mohiniyattam performance by Dr Kanak
Over 30 Indian Pharma Companies
Rele accompanied by Nalanda Troupe 22
participate in the "AROGYA 2012 -
International Healthcare Exhibition"
EXPOSITION OF THE SACRED
in Colombo 51
KAPILAVASTU RELICS IN SRI LANKA
Students of Army public Schools,
Arrival of the Sacred Kapilavastu
India Visit Sri Lanka 52
Relics in Sri Lanka 23
India-Sri Lanka Foundation supports
Sacred Kapilavastu Relics return to India 31 High Commission of India
the visit of students from Richmond
No. 36 -38, Galle Road, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka
College, Galle to India 53
Inauguration of a Photographic Exhibition Tel: [phone]
titled "India Through Sri Lankan Students to travel India to study Hindi 53 Fax: [phone]
Eyes - The Buddhist Circuit” 32
E-mail: [email protected]
CULTURE & ART website: www.hcicolombo.org
Symposium on Relic Workship 33
facebook: www.facebook.com/hcicolombo
Soul Cages - Bharathanatyam Dance
"Journey of the Holy Tree" - Cultural
Interface Between India and Sri Lanka 34 Theatre by Ms Savitha Sastry 54 Assistant High Commission of India
No. 31, Rajapihilla Mawatha, PO Box 47, Kandy,
President of sri Lanka’s message for Three day Cultural Festival titled Sri Lanka
"Journey of the Holy Tree" 35 “Divine Ecstasy” in Jaffna from Tel: [phone]
16-18 August 2012 55 Fax: [phone]
Prime Minister of India’s message for E-mail: [email protected]
“Divine Ecstasy” (In Pics) 56
"Journey of the Holy Tree" 36
Consulate General of India
De Lanerolle brothers with pianist No. 103, New Road, Hambantota, Sri Lanka
Visit of Hon’ble Kumari Selja, Minister of
Rohan De Silva performance in India 57 Tel: [phone]
Culture, Housing and Urban Poverty
Fax: [phone]
Alleviation to an Indian Pilot Phase Housing
Project site in the Northern Province 37 Visit of Ms Namita Gokhale to Sri Lanka 57 E-mail: [email protected]
Film appreciation workshop 58
Launch of the Thiruketheeswaram Temple Consulate General of India
Restoration Project 38 No. 280, Palaly Road, Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Men in Blue at India House, Colombo 59
Tel: [phone],
[phone] Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]
President of Sri Lanka H.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa receiving the Sacred Kapilavastu Relics at the tarmac in a colourful ceremony at the
COVER PAGE :
Bandaranaike International Airport on 19 August 2012 - Photograph by Sudath Silva
AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2012
Shri Pranab Mukherjee sworn in as the 13th President of India
Shri Pranab Mukherjee was sworn in as the 13th The principal responsibility of this office is to function as
President of India on July 25, 2012. He was the guardian of our Constitution. I will strive, as I said on
administered the oath of office by the Chief Justice of oath, to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution
India SH Kapadia in the Central Hall of Parliament. not just in word but also in spirit. We are all, across the
divide of party and region, partners at the altar of our
Text of the speech by Shri Pranab Muerjee after being motherland. Our federal Constitution embodies the
sworn in as the President of India: idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also
modernity. A modern nation is built on some basic
I am deeply moved by the high honour you have
fundamentals: democracy, or equal rights for every
accorded to me. Such honour exalts the occupant of this
citizen; secularism, or equal freedom to every faith;
office, even as it demands that he rises above personal
equality of every region and language; gender equality
or partisan interests in the service of the national good.
and, perhaps most important of all, economic equity.
For our development to be real the poorest of our land
must feel that they are part of the
narrative of rising India.
I have seen vast, perhaps
unbelievable, changes during the
journey that has brought me from the
flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal
village to the chandeliers of Delhi. I
was a boy when Bengal was
savaged by a famine that killed
millions; the misery and sorrow is
still not lost on me. We have
achieved much in the field of
agriculture, industry and social
infrastructure; but that is nothing
compared to what India, led by the
coming generations, will create in
the decades ahead.
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frontlines of this war long before many
other recognized its vicious depth or
poisonous consequences. I am proud
of the valour and conviction and
steely determination of our Armed
Forces as they have fought this
menace on our borders; of our brave
police forces as they have met the
enemy within; and of our people, who
have defeated the terrorist trap by
remaining calm in the face of
extraordinary provocation. The
people of India have been a beacon of
maturity through the trauma of
whiplash wounds. Those who
instigate violence and perpetuate
hatred need to understand one truth.
Few minutes of peace will achieve far
more than many years of war. India is
Our national mission must continue to be what it was content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high
when the generation of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal
table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission
Nehru, Sardar Patel, Rajendra Prasad, Ambedkar and
by noxious practitioners of terror.
Maulana Azad offered us a tryst with destiny: to
eliminate the curse of poverty, and create such As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but
opportunities for the young that they can take our India we must remain focused on the future. In my view,
forward by quantum leaps. There is no humiliation more education is the alchemy that can bring India its next
abusive than hunger. Trickle-down theories do not golden age. Our oldest scriptures laid the framework of
address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must society around the pillars of knowledge; our challenge is
lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the to convert knowledge into a democratic force by taking it
dictionary of modern India. into every corner of our country. Our motto is
unambiguous: All for knowledge, and knowledge for all.
What has brought us thus far, will take us further ahead.
India's true story is the partnership of the people. Our The weight of office sometimes becomes a burden on
wealth has been created by farmers and workers, dreams. The news is not always cheerful. Corruption is
industrialists and service-providers, soldiers and an evil that can depress the nation's mood and sap its
civilians. Our social harmony is the sublime co- progress. We cannot allow our progress to be hijacked
existence of temple, mosque, church, gurudwara and by the greed of a few.
synagogue; they are symbols of our unity in diversity.
I envisage an India where unity of purpose propels the
Peace is the first ingredient of prosperity. History has common good; where Centre and State are driven by
often been written in the red of blood; but development the single vision of good governance; where every
and progress are the luminous rewards of a peace
revolution is green; where democracy is not merely the
dividend, not a war trophy. The two halves of the 20th
right to vote once in five years but to speak always in the
Century tell their own story. Europe, and indeed the
citizen's interest; where knowledge becomes wisdom;
world, reinvented itself after the end of the Second
where the young pour their phenomenal energy and
World War and the collapse of colonization, leading to
talent into the collective cause. As tyranny dwindles
the rise of great institutions like the United Nations.
across the world; as democracy gets fresh life in regions
Leaders who ordered great armies into the field, and
once considered inhospitable; India becomes the
then understood that war was more barbarism than
model of modernity.
glory, transformed the world by changing its mindset.
Gandhiji taught by example, and gave us the supreme As Swami Vivekananda in his soaring metaphor said,
strength of non-violence. India's philosophy is not an India will be raised, not with the power of flesh but with
abstract in textbooks. It flourishes in the day-to-day life the power of the spirit, not with the flag of destruction,
of our people, who value the humane above all else. but with the flag of peace and love. Bring all the forces of
Violence is external to our nature; when, as human good together. Do not care what be your colour-green,
beings, we do err, we exorcise our sins with penitence blue or red, but mix all the colours up and produce that
and accountability. intense glow of white, the colour of love. Ours is to work,
the results will take care of themselves.
But the visible rewards of peace have also obscured the
fact that the age of war is not over. We are in the midst of There is no greater reward for a public servant than to be
a fourth world war; the third was the Cold War, but it was elected the first citizen of our Republic.
very warm in Asia, Africa and Latin America till it ended
in the early 1990s. The war against terrorism is the Jai Hind
fourth; and it is a world war because it can raise its evil
head anywhere in the world. India has been on the
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VISITS
Prime Minister’s visit to Iran to attend XVI NAM Summit
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh addressing the XVI Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit, in Tehran, Iran on August 30, 2012.
The Iranian President Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on the right of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh visited Iran to Non-alignment has been the bedrock of India’s foreign
participate in the Sixteenth Summit Meeting of the policy since it was enunciated by the first Prime
Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. In the post-
Movement which was held at Tehran on 30th and 31st Cold War era, when the world is no longer divided into
August, 2012. two military blocs, the Non-Aligned Movement has a
renewed role to play in the emerging world order.
This was the third NAM Summit in which Prime Today NAM seeks to articulate the concerns of the
Minister Dr. Singh participated. He had earlier developing countries regarding the contemporary
participated in the NAM Summit held at Sharm el- global challenges facing the international community
Sheikh in Egypt in July 2009, and earlier at the Summit such as food security, protection of the environment
in Havana in Cuba in September 2006. PM addressed and the reform of the institutions of global governance.
the Summit during the General Debate on 30th
August. As a founding-member of the Non-Aligned Movement,
India has consistently striven to ensure that the
The theme of the Tehran NAM Summit was “Lasting Movement moves forward on the basis of cooperation
Peace through Joint Global Governance”. An and constructive engagement rather than
interactive debate on this subject was held at the confrontation, and that it straddles the differences of
Ministerial Segment of the Summit on 28th and 29th the traditional North-South divide. India’s commitment
August. to NAM is firm and abiding and this will be the guiding
principle for our participation at the Tehran Summit.
As is customary in NAM Summits, the Tehran Summit
had comprehensive discussion on major global Prior to this multilateral event, Prime Minister had
regional and sub-regional issues as well as issues bilateral engagements with the Supreme Leader and
relating to social and economic matters. The Summit President of Iran on 29th August. This was the first
meeting adopted a Final Document, listing the bilateral visit at this level after 2001. India shares
Movement’s position on all important international historical and cultural links with Iran and in recent
issues. times the relationship has expanded to include
cooperation in diverse fields like hydrocarbons, trade
The Summit level meeting was preceded by a
and economic matters, consultations on important
customary Ministerial meeting, which was held on
international and regional issues, cultural and people-
28th and 29th August, and a Senior Officials Meeting
to-people contacts.
on 26th and 27th August. The External Affairs Minister
Shri S. M. Krishna represented India at the Ministerial Finally, Prime Minister met with some of the leaders
Meeting. The External Affairs Minister also from other NAM countries participating in the Summit.
represented India at the NAM Ministerial Committee
on Palestine which was held separately in the evening
of 28th August.
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Prime Minister accompanied by his wife
Smt. Gursharan Kaur on his arrival in Tehran
View of the XVI NAM Summit opening session in Tehran
Prime Minister with the President of Islamic Republic of
Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the delegation level
Prime Minister with leaders of participating nations at the XVI NAM Summit
talks in Tehran
in Tehran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomes
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the
Prime Minister with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic
Presidential Palace in Tehran, Iran, 29 August 2012.
Republic of Iran in Tehran
Prime Minister meeting with the Prime Minister of Prime Minister with members of the Prime Minister meeting with President
Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina in Tehran Indian Community in Tehran of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai on the
sidelines of XVI NAM Summit in Tehran
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State Visit of President of Tajikistan to India
The President of the Republic of Tajikistan, His Leader of opposition Smt. Sushma Swaraj and the
Excellency Mr. Emomali Rahmon, paid a State Visit to External Affairs Minister Shri S.M. Krishna also called
India from 1 to 4 September 2012 at the invitation of the on the President of Tajikistan. On the same day,
President of India. On 3 September, the Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon addressed a business
President met the President and the Vice President of meeting jointly organized by ASSOCHAM, CII and
India, and hold discussions on bilateral cooperation FICCI. The President also visited Bangluru on 4
with the Prime Minister of India. During the visit, the September.
President of the Republic of Tajikistan Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and the
Mr. Emomali Rahmon inspecting the meeting with the President of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan,
Guard of Honour at a Ceremonial Republic of Tajikistan, Mr. Emomali Mr. Emomali Rahmon at the media interaction in
Reception in New Delhi - Sept 3, 2012 Rahmon at Rashtrapati Bhavan - New Delhi - Sept 3, 2012
Sept 3, 2012.
State Visit of President of Palestine to India
President of Palestine, H.E. Arab Peace Plan, which calls
Mr. Mahmoud Abbas was for withdrawal of Israel to pre-
on a State Visit to India on 1967 borders, along with
11th September 2012. This recognition of Israel and the
was his fourth visit to India establishment of the State of
and his second State Visit. Palestine with East
He was accompanied by a Jerusalem as its capital. India
delegation comprising of has called for an end to illegal
senior Ministers including Israeli settlements in the
Dr. Saeb M.S. Erakat, PLO occupied Palestinian
Executive Committee territories and had welcomed
Member, and Mr. Nabil G.O. the ‘direct talks’ between the
President Shri Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister
Aburudainah, President’s Israelis and the Palestinians.
Dr. Manmohan Singh with the President of Palestine
Advisor. The visit included, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas at a Ceremonial Reception
inter alia, meeting with the in New Delhi. India has always extended its
support to Palestine in
President, delegation level
multilateral fora. India strongly supported the
talks with PM, calls by Vice President, and External
Palestinian application for membership of UN in 2011.
Affairs Minister.
India also supported Palestine in gaining membership
India's solidarity with the Palestinian people and its in UNESCO in October 2011.
support for the Palestinian cause goes back in time.
Apart from strong political support to the Palestinian
India's empathy with the Palestinian cause and its
cause at international, regional and bilateral levels,
friendship with the people of Palestine has become an
India has also been contributing, since long time,
integral part our foreign policy. India has extended its
material and technical assistance to the Palestinian
consistent and unwavering support to the Palestinian
people. During the visit, both sides signed MOUs for
issue. In line with our support for UN Security Council
cooperation in ICT, vocational training and
Resolutions 242 and 338, India supports a negotiated
constructing schools in Palestine.
solution resulting in a sovereign, independent, viable
and united State of Palestine living within secure and
The visit provided an opportunity for reviewing the
recognized borders, side by side at peace with Israel
entire gamut of bilateral relations, the Middle East
as endorsed in the Quartet Roadmap and UNSC
Peace Process, regional and international issues of
Resolutions 1397 & 1515. India has supported the
common concern and in particular the political turmoil
in West Asia.
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BILATERAL VISITS
Visit of H. E. President of Sri Lanka to India
President Mahinda Rajapaksa paid a visit to India from In this context, he thanked the Prime Minister of India
19-22 September 2012, following his State Visit to India for making arrangements for the exposition of the
in June 2010. Kapilavastu Relics in Sri Lanka, especially, the
extension of the period of the exposition.
During the visit, President Rajapaksa called on the
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee at the President Rajapaksa briefed Prime Minister
Rashtrapati Bhavan, held official talks with Prime Manmohan Singh on progress being made with regard
Minister Manmohan Singh, attended a dinner hosted in to rehabilitation and reconstruction in the North and the
his honour by the Prime Minister and visited Sanchi in East and resettlement of internally displaced persons.
Madhya Pradesh on 21 September. Reconciliation efforts and progress in implementing
the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and
The two leaders reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral
Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) featured as well, in
relations including economic and trade relations and
the discussions between the two leaders.
discussed measures to expand relations for mutual
benefit and reviewed progress of projects implemented President Rajapaksa’s delegation to bilateral meetings
with and assistance of India. included Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris,
Monitoring Member of Parliament Sajin de Vass
President Rajapaksa expressed appreciation for the
Gunawardena, Secretary to the President Lalith
steps taken by the Government of India to celebrate
Weeratunga, High Commissioner for Sri Lanka to India
jointly with the Government of Sri Lanka, the 2600th
Prasad Kariyawasam and Secretary of the Ministry of
Anniversary of the Enlightenment of Gautama Buddha.
External Affairs K. Amunugama.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa called on President Pranb Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan in new Delhi on 20 September
President Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on 20 September
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At the invitation of the Chief Minister of Madhya To mark this important occasion, President Rajapaksa
Pradesh, Shivraj Chouhan, President Rajapaksa planted in Sanchi, a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi in
visited sacred Sanchi on 21 September. Anuradhapura.
On arrival, President Rajapaksa was received by the Addressing a Public Meeting in Sanchi attended by
Governor of Madhya Pradesh Ramnaresh Yadav, Chief approximately five-thousand people, to mark the
Minister Shivraj Chouhan, and other dignitaries of the occasion, President Rajapaksa remarked that his
Madhya Pradesh Government. The President visited journey to Sanchi was undertaken as a pilgrim, in
the Sanchi Stupa Complex built by Emperor Asoka, a veneration of sacred Sanchi, and saluting and
UNESCO World Heritage Site, and paid homage to the celebrating the glorious past of that great region.
Relics of the two main disciples of Gautama Buddha,
Welcoming the President, Chief Minister Shivraj
Arhat Sariputta and Maha Moggallana, at the
Chouhan said “Shri Mahinda Rajapaksaji’s name
Chetiyagiri Vihara in Sanchi.
reminds me of another Mahendra. He was born
Thereafter, the President laid the foundation stone for centuries ago in the area that I represented in
the Sanchi University of Buddhist and Indic Studies Parliament for many years. He was the son of Emperor
together with the Prime Minister of Bhutan Jigme Yoser Asoka the Great. Mahendra, accompanied by his sister
Thinley, the Governor and Chief Minister of Madhya Sanghamitra had gone to Sri Lanka from Vidisha, a
Pradesh, Minister of Culture of Madhya Pradesh town from here. Thus, Mahindaji, your arrival from that
Laxmikant Sharma, and former Member of Parliament Land is like completion of a circle of history. One
Prakash Ambedkar. Mahendra had gone from here in the 3rd BC and the
other Mahinda has come to us from Sri Lanka today.”
Visit of Hon'ble Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Rural Development and Drinking
Water & Sanitation, Government of India, to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka and the Chairman, Lakshman
Kadirgamar Institute for International
Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS).
During the visit, Hon’ble Minister Jairam
Ramesh called on H.E. the President of Sri
Lanka and had meetings with Hon'ble Prof.
G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs and
Hon'ble Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of
Economic Development.
Hon'ble Jairam Ramesh delivered the
keynote address at a Joint Seminar on
Poverty Alleviation organized by the
Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for
International Relations and Strategic Studies
During the visit Hon’ble Minister called on H.E. the President of Sri Lanka (LKIIRSS), Colombo, and Research and
Information System for Developing
Hon’ble Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Rural Development and
Countries (RIS), New Delhi, on 12 July 2012.
Drinking Water & Sanitation, Government of India, paid an official
visit to Sri Lanka from 11-13 July 2012 on an invitation extended by In his welcome address, Prof G.L.Peiris,
Hon'ble Prof. G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, Government of Hon'ble Minister of External Affairs of Sri
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During the visit Hon’ble Minister had meetings with Mr Basil Rajapaksa, Hon'ble Minister of Economic Development and Prof. G.L. Peiris,
Hon'ble Minister of External Affairs
Lanka underlined the need for action towards poverty development and highlighted the important role being
alleviation and drew an analogy between “Divi played by the Right to Information Act in ensuring
Neguma” programme of Sri Lanka and the Mahatma transparency and good governance.
Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Hon'ble Minister Jairam Ramesh and Hon'ble Minister
(MNREGA) of India which provides mandatory 100
Prof. G.L. Peiris also witnessed the signing of an
days of rural employment. He highlighted that the
agreement between the Research and Information
Seminar would assist in comparative assessment of
System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi,
strategies adopted by the two countries for poverty
and the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for
alleviation.
International Relations and Strategic Studies
In his keynote address, Hon'ble Jairam Ramesh (LKIIRSS) to promote academic cooperation in the
highlighted the lessons drawn from India’s efforts in areas of bilateral and regional economic cooperation
poverty alleviation through major flagship and international economic and development issues.
programmes and underlined the importance of
RIS, an autonomous think-tank under the Ministry of
sustained economic growth; criticality of participation
External Affairs, Government of India, specialises in
of elected local institutions & women’s self help
policy research on international economic issues and
groups; infrastructure development namely rural roads
development cooperation. LKIIRSS under the Ministry
and drinking water and sanitation and social security
of External Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka, is a multi-
nets such as MNREGA as essential elements for the
disciplinary research forum dedicated to analysing Sri
success of poverty alleviation programmes/policies.
Lanka's strategic interests in the realm of international
He also highlighted that MNREGA was the largest of
relations, within the contemporary domestic and
its kind anywhere in the world with wage payments
global contexts. The MoU signed envisages
amounting to approximately 60 billion USD paid to the
strengthening of academic cooperation between the
beneficiaries directly. He mentioned that 20 billion
two institutes through collaborative research projects,
USD was being allocated in the current fiscal year for
capacity building programmes, joint
rural development in India. He also underlined the
conferences/seminars, exchange of research faculty,
importance of a legal rights based approach to
Shri Jairam Ramesh delivering the keynote address at a Joint Shri Jairam Ramesh delivered an address titled “Changing Role of
Seminar on Poverty Alleviation organized by the Lakshman India in South Asia” at the Bandaranaike Institute for International
Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies (BCIS) in a session chaired by Hon. Dr. Sarath Amunugama,
Studies (LKIIRSS), Colombo, and Research and Information System Senior Minister for International Monetary Cooperation.
for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, on 12 July 2012.
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