{"id":20193,"date":"2017-01-12T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=20193"},"modified":"2017-01-12T07:38:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:38:40","slug":"14th-pravasi-bharatiya-divas-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/14th-pravasi-bharatiya-divas-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: The 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017 Convention was held from 7 to 9 January, 2017 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Who was the Chief Guest for this year\u2019s convention?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Donald Ramotar<br \/>\n(b) Dr. Antonio Costa<br \/>\n(c) Priti Patel<br \/>\n(d) None of these<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>From 7 to 9 January, 2017; The 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017 Convention was held in Bengaluru in partnership with Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>The theme of this year is &#8220;Redefining Engagement with the Indian Diaspora.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s organized by the Ministry of External affairs and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in collaboration with the Karnataka government.<\/li>\n<li>In PBD -2017 about 8,000 delegates from 30 countries have participated.<\/li>\n<li>Prime Minister of Portugal Dr. Antonio Costa was the Chief Guest for 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017.<\/li>\n<li>While the Vice President of Suriname, Shri Michael Ashwin Adhin partipated as special guest.<\/li>\n<li>The first day of convention January 7 was celebrated as the Youth PBD-2017.<\/li>\n<li>The inaugural session has theme &#8220;Role of Diaspora Youth in the Transformation of India.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Youth PBD saw the participation of 160 Indian origin youth visiting under four of our &#8220;Know India\u201d programs, 250 graduate and postgraduate students from the National Service Scheme and 200 students from Bengaluru College.<\/li>\n<li>On 8 January, the PBD Convention was inaugurated by the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister.<\/li>\n<li>On this occasion Prime Minister Narendra Modi also launched Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PKVY).<\/li>\n<li>It is skill development program targeted at Indian youth seeking overseas employment to make India the Skill Capital of the World.<\/li>\n<li>On 9 January 2017 President Pranab Mukherjee conferred \u201cPravasi Bharatiya Samman Award -2017\u201d to 30 NRIs\/organizations, these are:<br \/>\n1. Dr. Gorur Krishna Harinath(Australia)-Community Service<br \/>\n2. Mr. Rajasekharan Pillai Valavoor Kizhakkathil(Bahrain)-Business<br \/>\n3. Antwerp Indian Association(Belgium)-Community Service<br \/>\n4. Mr. Nazeer Ahamed Mohamed Zackiriah(Brunei)-Community Service<br \/>\n5. Mr. Mukund Bhikhubhai Purohit(Canada)-Business<br \/>\n6. Mr. Nalinkumar Sumanlal Kothari(Djibouti)-Community Service<br \/>\n7. Mr. Vinod Chandra Patel(Fiji)-Social Service<br \/>\n8. Mr. Raghunath Marie Antonin Manet(France)-Arts &amp; Culture<br \/>\n9. Dr. Lael Anson E. Best(Israel)-Medical Science<br \/>\n10. Dr. Sandip Kumar Tagore(Japan)-Arts &amp; Culture<br \/>\n11. Mr. Ariful Islam(Libya)Community -Service<br \/>\n12. Tan Sri Dato Dr. Muniandy Thambirajah(Malaysia)-Education and Community Service<br \/>\n13. Hon\u2019ble Mr. Pravind Kumar Jugnauth(Mauritius)-Public Service<br \/>\n14. H.E. Mr. Antonio Luis Santos da Costa(Portugal) Public Service<br \/>\n15. Dr. Raghavan Seetharaman(Qatar)-Business Management<br \/>\n16. Ms. Zeenat Musarrat Jafri(Saudi Arabia)-Education<br \/>\n17. Singapore Indian Association(Singapore)-Community Service<br \/>\n18. Dr. Carani Balaraman Sanjeevi(Sweden)-Medicine<br \/>\n19. Mr. Susheel Kumar Saraff(Thailand)-Business<br \/>\n20. Mr. Winston Chandarbhan Dookeran(Trinidad &amp; Tobago)-Public Service<br \/>\n21. Mr. Vasudev Shamdas Shroff(United Arab Emirates)-Community Service<br \/>\n22. India Social and Cultural Centre, Abu Dhabi(United Arab Emirates)-Philanthropy and Community Service<br \/>\n23. Rt. Hon\u2019ble Ms. Priti Patel(United Kingdom)-Public Service<br \/>\n24. Ms. Neena Gill(United Kingdom)-Public Service<br \/>\n25. Mr. Hari Babu Bindal(USA)-Environmental Engineering<br \/>\n26. Dr. Bharat Haridas Barai(USA)-Community Service<br \/>\n27. Ms. Nisha Desai Biswal(USA)-Public Affairs<br \/>\n28. Dr. Mahesh Mehta(USA)-Community Service<br \/>\n29. Mr. Ramesh Shah(USA)-Community Service<br \/>\n30. Dr. Sampatkumar Shidramapa Shivangi(USA)-Community Leadership<\/li>\n<li>PBD has been held traditionally on 9th January every year to commemorate the return of Mahatma Gandhi as a Pravasi from South Africa to India on 9 January 1915.<\/li>\n<li>The Day was established in 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=156091\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=156091<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=156225\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=156225<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/pms-address-at-the-inauguration-of-the-14th-pravasi-bharatiya-divas-convention-in-bengaluru\/?comment=disable\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/pms-address-at-the-inauguration-of-the-14th-pravasi-bharatiya-divas-convention-in-bengaluru\/?comment=disable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017 Convention was held from 7 to 9 January, 2017 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Who was the Chief Guest for this year\u2019s convention? (a) Donald Ramotar (b) Dr. Antonio Costa (c) Priti Patel (d) None of these Ans: (b) Related facts: From 7 to 9 January, 2017; The 14th Pravasi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-20193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}