Chhattisgarh Assembly Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal was accorded warm welcome at the Swami Vivekananda Airport here on his return from a successful foreign tour on Monday.
It may be recalled that Agrawal had gone to attend the 60th Commonwealth Members of Parliament Meet in Cameroon from October 6 to October 9.
The Speaker visited Paris in France, Zurich in Switzerland and Dubai before returning to Raipur on Monday.
Agrawal attended the Meet on ‘Good Governance, Transparency and Accountability’ the role of education in the development of youth.
He also addressed the Meet as a member of the Indian delegation.
The conference discussed unity on various issues, empowerment of women, good governance, transparency and accountability, skill development of youth. There were people’s representatives from 51 nations at the Commonwealth conference.
Talking to reporters at the Airport, Agrawal said that member states discussed how the new world order should be and the progress of various states.
The empowerment of women in India was discussed citing various examples from our ancient cultural traditions. There should be transparency in administration. The future of any country depends on its youth. Future belongs to India as there are more youth in the country. The youth should be trained in the skills in which they are interested and jobs should be provided, he stated.