Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate the two-day Think-20 meeting under G-20 on January 16 at Kushabhau Thackeray International Convention Center in Bhopal at 10 am. In this, more than 300 ministers, intellectuals and subject-experts from India and abroad will brainstorm in plenary and parallel sessions, round table conferences and cluster briefings on the topic of “Environment-friendly lifestyle, ethical values and global good governance”. . The first day of the meeting will have 3 Plenary Sessions, 10 Parallel Sessions and 2 Briefing Clusters.
G-20 Chief Co-ordinator Government of India Harshvardhan Shringla gave detailed information about the meeting to be held on January 16 and 17 in Bhopal. He told that India has got the chairmanship of G-20 for the first time. Vice President of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi said that Ethics and Science and Ethics and Finance will also be discussed in different sessions. Around 300 participants will attend the various sessions.
Of these, 94 will be international, 115 from different states of India and around 100 local participants. It will include 14 G-20 countries, 3 South Asian countries Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, 21 countries from Africa and other regions and 4 Egypt, Netherlands, Nigeria and Singapore as official guest countries. Along with this, representatives of 9 international organizations Asian Development Bank, ADB Institute, African Union, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GIZ, OECD, UN, UNDP and UNICEF will also participate.
UNICEF representative Yasumasa Kimor told that UNICEF is supporting globally in G-20. The inaugural session on the first day will be graced by Mr. Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean and CEO, ADBI Tokyo, Japan. Special speakers Regional Director for South Asia UNICEF, Nepal Mr. George Lauria Adjei, Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Political Affairs, Law, Security and National Development Planning Mr. Slamet Soedarsono,, भारत सरकार के जी-20 के मुख्य समन्वयक श्री हर्षवर्धन श्रृगंला एवं भारत सरकार के नीति आयोग के उपाध्यक्ष श्री सुमन बेरी होंगे। आभार प्रदर्शन अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी सुशासन एवं नीति विश्लेषण संस्थान की प्रिंसिपल एडवाइजर डॉ. इन्द्राणी बड़पुजारी करेंगी।
The Chief Coordinator of the G-20, Government of India, will be Mr. Harshvardhan Shringla and the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, Government of India, Mr. Suman Berry. The vote of thanks will be done by Dr. Indrani Badpujari, Principal Advisor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis.
The topic of this session was discussed by Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and Vice President of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis, Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi and T-20 Chair and Director General MPIDSA Ambassador Sujon R. Will do masonry. Shri Prateek Hajela, CEO of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis, Bhopal will deliver the welcome address.
There will be 3 plenary and 10 parallel sessions on the first day
The first plenary session on the topic Life, Value and Development Formation will be presided over by Dr. Rajeev Kumar, President of the First India Foundation and former Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, Government of India. In this session, Professor Dennis J., President, Global Solutions Initiative, Germany. Snower will be the keynote speaker. Panellists of the session Dr. Mario Pezzini, Former Director of the OECD Development Centre, Paris Professor Riatu Qibatiah, Director of the Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Indonesia Professor Li Xiaoyun, Lead Chair, Agricultural University of China Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) Singapore Dr. Iqbal Singh Sewiya, Director, Capacity Building Commission, Government of India, Dr. R.K. Balasubramaniam, Center for Professional Ethics U Kalon, United Kingdom and Director of the School of Law, U Kalon, Cyprus Prof. Doris Suredor, Chairman of Task Force 6 of T20 India and Visiting Fellow RIS, New Delhi Mr. G.A. TADAS and the lead chair will be Professor Li Xiaoyun from the Agricultural University of China.
The first plenary session will be followed by two briefing clusters. The first cluster of the North-Eastern Training, Research and Advocacy (NETRA) Foundation will be addressed by Dr. Jayant Chowdhary, Head, Department of Rural Development, Tripura University, Tripura, and Dr. Subhracharan Das, Department of Economics, Tripura University, Tripura The second cluster of the Indian Economic Association (IEA) was organized by G. J. Professor of the Department of Economics, University of Science and Technology. N. Bishnoi and Professor of Economics and Head of the School of Social Sciences, Panjab University, Patiala, Prof. D.K. Madan will address.