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`Samavayam-2002' to be in Germany

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI May 22. The second edition of the global non-resident Keralite meet, `Samavayam', will be held at Dingdon, near Dusseldorf in Germany on August 23.

`Samavayam-2002' will be held as part of the World Malayalee Council's annual conference to be held at Dingdon from August 20-25, the Non-Resident Keralites Welfare Minister, M.M. Hassan has said. The Samavayam-2001 was held at Kochi.

Mr. Hassan said the programme would also act as a pre-session to the global investor meet planned for November. A large number of Malayalees, including potential investors, were expected to attend the Samavayam. A team of Ministers and senior Government officials would attend the meet, he told newspersons.

Mr. Hassan told a news conference on Wednesday that the Confederation of Indian Industries would work in partnership with the Norka Department and the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation to promote the global investor meet. The CII's Kerala president, Pamela Anna Mathew, and the KSIDC managing director, Jiji Thompson, signed an agreement for `strategic alliance' for the GIM. The CII would participate in the GIM road shows.

The Minister said the Government was trying to get the passenger ship service between Kochi and the Gulf resumed. A global tender had been invited a couple of months back for the ship service. The ship service had to be stopped abruptly because of the Central Government's insistence that the service strictly follow international maritime rules regarding passenger convenience.

He said his department had recently set up a committee to run a campaign against fake recruitment for employment abroad. The committee, headed by him, would comprise senior police and Labour officials as well as the Protector of Emigrants.

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