President Kovind grateful to people of Chile for giving ‘Gandhiji a home in the heart of Santiago’

Santiyago, April 1: Commemorating 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma President Kovind offered floral tributes to Gandhi statue the at Plaza de la India in Santiago. President Ram Nath Kovind said he is grateful to the people of Chile for giving Mahatma Gandhiji a home in the heart of Santiago. The plaza has been built to commemorate national icons of the country. India offered US$ 53000 for beautification of Plaza de la India with tree plantations to the Mayor of Providence Evelyn Matthei.

President is on the final leg of his three-nation tour to Croatia, Bolivia and Chile from Mar 25 to April 4. President arrives in Santiago, Chile yesterday on the final leg of his three-nation visit. The President looks forward to productive discussions with the Chilean leadership to further strengthen India-Chile bilateral relations

“OCI is invited to be a partner in India growth story!” said, foreign affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar. The Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) is an immigration status permitting a foreign citizen of Indian origin to live and work in the Republic of India indefinitely. The OCI was introduced in response to demands for dual citizenship by the Indian diaspora, particularly in developed countries.

While addressing Indian community in Chile President Kovind invited them to actively participate in OCI schemes like Pravasi Bhartiya Divas, PDB, Regional PBD Youth PBD, Know India Programme, flagship schemes like Make in India, Digital India

President visited Pablo Neruda Museum in Santiago today to appreciate literary and art collections of Chilean Nobel laureate and poet-diplomat Pablo Neruda. He gifted a fountain pen to Museum in recognition of Neruda's fondness for fountain pen

 

Pablo Neruda was a Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.