Speech by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the Banquet Hosted in Honour of the President of the Republic of Seychelles, His Excellency, Mr. James Alix Michel
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Your Excellency this evening.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Your Excellency this evening.
I am indeed happy to be here this evening to meet the distinguished achievers who have contributed to the book"30 Women in Power:”
I am delighted to be here today on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of EEPC India, a premier trade and investment promotion organization of our country.
It is indeed a pleasure for me to be present here and address you all on Teachers’ Day.
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I congratulate the Urban Development Ministry for having brought together all the ambassadors who are dedicated to the cause of Swachh Bharat. It is heartening to see such an overwhelming response for the event and your strong presence here today assures me of its success.
I am happy to be amidst you to share this significant moment in your life. At the outset, I would like to congratulate those who have completed their degree programme from this prestigious Institute. I would also like to thank the management for inviting me to this Institute named after Sir M. Visvesvaraya, an eminent engineer, planner and statesman of our country.
I am delighted to be here again to speak to you at this inaugural session of the Concluding Conference of the programme on"Cooperative Development, Peace and Security in South and Central Asia”.I fondly recall visiting CRRID as External Affairs Minister to deliver the P.N. Haksar Memorial Lecture and as Finance Minister to chair a conference on this topic.
1.It is indeed a happy occasion for me to be present amidst you on the International Day of Older Persons. It is my privilege to honour, through the "Vayoshreshtha Samman”, individuals and institutions who have rendered outstanding services to the cause of the elderly.