It gives me great pleasure to be here today to confer the Second Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony for the year, 2013, to Maestro Zubin Mehta. I congratulate the eminent Jury for their unanimous choice.
I consider it a great privilege to be amongst you all in this beautiful temple city of Bhubaneswar, having a rich heritage and culture, to deliver the Second Convocation Address of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar.
I am happy to be present here today on the occasion of the Convocation of the sixth batch of the students of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), at Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan’s Institute of Communication and Management, Bhubaneshwar.
It is an honour for me to be present here today for the International Literacy Day, 2013. I compliment the National Literacy Mission Authority for organizing the celebrations marking this important occasion.
I am indeed delighted to meet you today to participate in this award ceremony.
It gives me immense pleasure to extend a very warm welcome to you all to the Inaugural Session of the 31st Meeting of Ministers of Health and 66th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-E
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is with great pleasure that I welcome Your Excellency, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and your distinguished delegation on your first State visit to India.
I am happy to be here to inaugurate this Engineers Conclave 2013 being held for the first time in our country.
At the very outset, I would like to congratulate Shri Khamliana and Shri Mohammad Abdul Bari and the Foundation for Amity and Solidarity, New Delhi.
