Discussions on the problems faced by Indian students abroad and NRI students studying in India to the start-up eco-system in Karnataka were the focus of “Yuva Bharatiya Divas” on the first day.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being driven around in a battery-operated car during the event held at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre.
The "Yuva Bharatiya Divas” concluded with the showcasing of dance and music forms of Karnataka.
Quoting from the Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads, 36-year-old Suriname Vice-President Michael Ashwin Adhin recites verses in Sanskrit during a nearly 15- minute address on the “role of diaspora youth in the transformation of India”, organised as part of Youth Pravasi Divas.
A stall of the Reunion Island diaspora. PIOs form about 30 per cent of the island’s nearly 8 lakh population.
A Bidri artist exhibits his skill at a stall on the concluding day of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.
India registered a 11 per cent increase in foreign tourist arrivals in 2016 over 2015, with as many as nine million tourists visiting the country. This excludes visits by non-resident Indians.
Fourteen States, including Karnataka, Kerala, Assam, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh, had put up stalls at the event.
The number of delegates, which crossed 7,100, has been unprecedented since the inception of the event in 2003 to provide a platform for engagement between the diaspora and the government.
It's selfie time for visitors with a robot made out of flowers at the Karnataka stall.
President Pranab Mukherjee, along with Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa and Suriname Vice President Michael Ashwin Adhin, releases a publication during the valedictory of the 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.
Black money and corruption were slowly eating into the country’s economy, politics and society, and the government took the responsibility of fighting these, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the inauguration of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.