Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, 2014, kicked off at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Wednesday with a theme, ‘Engaging Diaspora: Connecting Across Generations’.
The Odisha stall here is being jointly organised by the Odisha Investment and Export Promotion Office (OIEPO) located in the Odisha Resident Commissioner’s office and the TEAM Odisha. The objective of the event is to maintain close interface with Odia people residing abroad and other global investors interested to invest in Odisha.
The stall has been thematically designed to showcase the opportunities available in sectors like IT, ITES, plastics, aluminium, steel, downstream industries, tourism and food processing sectors.
Among others, Principal Resident Commissioner Dr Sunil K Bhargava, Industries Secretary Parag Gupta, Joint Resident Commissioner Dr Tribikram Pradhan, OSDs (Tourism) Dr Rita Tripathy and Sucharita Sarangi and IPICOl Joint Manager DK Senapati were present. President Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to grace the concluding ceremony on Friday.