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2016 List of Summits & Conferences (Jan Aug)

Summits& Conferences

January
Hosts
Notes

Business Summit
22nd CII Partnership Summit & 1st
Sunrise AP Investment Meet
14th PravasiBharatiyaDiwas

New Delhi
Visakhapatnam

16 agreements signed b/w India and France

Rs.38,500crores by RINL

New Delhi

Sustainable agriculture conference

Gangtok

National Conference on Sustainable

Agriculture, Farmers Welfare

Sikkim

To bring together Non-Resident Indians

(NRIs) and Persons of Indian origin (PIOs)
and help shape stronger links between them
and India.
Indias First Fully Organic State
Sikkim
To transform agriculture based
on sustainable and efficient use of
resources like soil and water

19th National Conference on eGovernance

Nagpur,
Maharashtra

To enabled education and cyber security

framework for citizen centric services.

4th India Africa Hydrocarbons

Conference
Conference of QCG on Afghan
Peace & Reconciliation
10th Ministerial Conference

New Delhi

To enhance their energy security

Islamabad

to create consensus for talks between the

Taliban and Afghanistans government.
Nairobi Package include Ministerial
Decisions on agriculture, cotton and issues
related to least developed countries

Nairobi, Kenya

Summits & Conferences

February
Hosts
Notes

Counter-Terrorism Conference 2016

Jaipur

To prevent attacks through intelligence

collection

3rd Asian Ministerial Conference on

Tiger Conservation
10th High Energy Materials
Conference

India

13 Nations - conserve the tiger population

Hyderabad.

Cryogenic mark-III based GSLV

satellite launch vehicle in December.

India Investment Summit 2016

New Delhi

Global Maritime Summit

U.S -Southeast Asian summit

India
California

World Government Summit

Dubai, UAE

Resurgent Rajasthan Partnership

Summit

Rajasthan

Ministry of Finance in partnership with SBI

Caps is organized a Make in
India campaign
In April 2016 India host it first time
To provides an opportunity to build out its
economic approach for the United States
and ASEAN.
Karnataka Mobile One m-governance model
gold medal
Signed 295 MoUsamounting to Rs 3.21 lakh
crores

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March
Summits & Conferences

Hosts

Notes

Raisina Dialogue

New Delhi

National conference of Women

Legislators
Advancing Asia: Investing for the
Future
World Sufi Forum

New Delhi

Flagship Programme on Geopolitics and

Geo- economics
33% reservation for women in legislation

Make in India conference

Sydney

Happening Haryana Global

Investors Summit-2016

Gurgaon
, Haryana

First Maritime summit

Mumbai,
Maharashtra

8th BRICS Summit, 2016

Goa

43rd SKOCH Summit

New Delhi.

New Delhi

IMF endorsed monetary policies of central

banks in Europe and Japan
Giving a boost to the rich Sufi culture in
India
Investors can invest in India and capitalize
the biggest market in the world
To attract a 25 lakh crore investment

New Delhi

57 countries are likely to participate in the

summit
To give impetus to Make In India and blue
economy
Theme: Building Responsive, Inclusive and
Collective Solutions.
M Venkaiah Naidu was conferred with
the Skoch Lifetime Achievement Award

April
Summits & Conferences

Hosts

Notes

National Family Planning Summit

2016

Delhi

North East-ASEAN Business

Summit 2016

Manipur, Imphal

3rd Asia Ministerial Conference on

Tiger Conservation
Maritime India Summit 2016

New Delhi.

360 degree communication plan for

enhanced awareness regarding various
issues pertaining to family planning.
Brand ambassador - Amitabh Bachchan
Organized by the Manipur Department of
Commerce and Industries in collaboration
with Indian Chamber of
Commerce and International Chamber for
Service Industry
Government has allotted 380.00 crore to the
Project Tiger in the current fiscal year
Investment: Rs 82,905
Port led development for faster and
sustainable economic growth
1 Lakh Crore investment for Port
Development
A total of 141 MoUs and Business
Agreements were signed by various
players
Sagarmala National Perspective Plan
Released

Mumbai

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SmtManeka Sanjay Gandhi
Shillong,
inaugurates Regional Conference of Meghalaya
North Eastern States on Child
Adoption

Fix the maximum age limit for adoption

of children
All the Child Care institutions must be
registered under the Juvenile Justice
(Care and Protection of Children) Act,
2015

Joint Conference of Chief Ministers New Delhi

and Chief Justices
Army Commanders Conference

New Delhi

To appraise current and emerging strategic

security scenario, review of operational
preparedness of the Indian Army
to address regional issues, encouraging
security, political, and economic
cooperation among Afghanistan and its
neighbouring countries
29 countries taking part in the exhibition

Heart of Asia Conference

New Delhi

International Defence Expo

Malaysia

Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing

Symposium

New Delhi

13thEU-India Summit

Belgium

2016 Nuclear Security Summit

Washington, D.C

International conference on
the zero

Paris, France.

To discuss on the applications of remote

sensing technologies for disaster mitigation
and to better monitor global climate change
Summit has endorsed the EU-India
Agenda for Action 2020 as a common
road map for the strategic partnership in the
next five years.
To coordinate international efforts to
prevent terror organizations from acquiring
nuclear weapons or material.
Bronze bust of Aryabhatta unveiled
At UNESCO by the
HRD Minister SmritiIrani

May
Summits & Conferences

Hosts

Notes

Global conference on women

empowerment
Landmark meeting of SAARC
Countries on protection of
Children
First Maritime Security Dialogue
between US and India

New Delhi

National Conference on
Gaushalas

New Delhi

2016 Women Economic Forum

(WEF)

New Delhi

Theme of Women:Uplifting and Uniting

the World.
To set strategies and agree on
commitments to ensure the protection and
security of the children of the region.
Discover the scope of maritime
cooperation under the framework of this
maritime dialogue
organized by the Ministry of Environment,
Forest and Climate Change and
Department of Animal Husbandry,
Dairying & Fisheries
Theme: Women: Uplifting and Uniting
the World

New Delhi

New Delhi

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49th Annual Meeting of the Asian
Development Bank (ADB)

International Buddhist conference

Beijing-New Delhi Yoga
Conference
First world conference on tourism
for development
G7 finance summit

World Humanitarian Summit

Frankfurt (Germany) Theme : Asian Economic Outlook

2016
Growth rates to 5.7% each in 2016 and
2017 from 5.9% projected last year.
Nepal
Theme: Lumbini, Nepal: the birth place of
Lord Buddha and the fountain of
Buddhism and world peace
China
Organised by the Foreign Affairs and
Overseas Chinese affairs offices and the
China-India Yoga College in Kunming.
China
Theme: Tourism for Peace and
Development
Japan(Sendai)
To give fillip for balancing the growth of
the global economy amid the slowing
down of the Chinese economy
Istanbul(Turkey)
i.World leaders to be committed to
improving the humanitarian responses to
crises
ii.Fund Education Cannot Wait launched

June
Summits & Conferences

Hosts

Notes

National Health Editors

Conference
International conference onYoga
for Body and Beyond

New Delhi

Theme of Yoga for Holistic Health

Recent Researches
32 countries are taking part in the
Conference

Rajswa Gyansangam, an annual

conference of tax administrators

New Delhi

Conference of Power Ministers

South Goa

St Petersburg International
Economic Forum (SPIEF)
SCO Summit 2016

Russia

International Banking Summit

New Delhi

First time that two Revenue BoardsCentral

Board ofDirect Taxes (CBDT) & Central
Board of Excise& Customs (CBEC) are
holding the conclave at the same time.
Piyush Goyal Launches Ujala Scheme in
Goa
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister
Dharmendra Pradhan represent India
India and Pakistan signed the
Memorandum of Obligations
Doha Bank CEO Dr. R Seetharaman
conferred with 2016 Green Economy
Visionary Award

Tashkent,
Uzbekistan
Rome

July
Summits & Conferences

Hosts

Notes

World power ministers at Switch

summit
BRICS policy planning dialogue
meeting

Vadodara, Gujarat

Second BRICS Youth Summit

Guwahati, Assam

under the leadership of Union Power

Minister Piyush Goyal.
Strategic assessments of international
situation and the regional situation and
trends
Inaugurated by Assam CM Sarbananda
Sonowal

Patna, Bihar

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NATO Summit 2016

Warsaw, Poland

Discuss to strengthen the Alliances

deterrence and defence, and plans to
project stability in the wider
neighbourhood.
Theme: 20 Years of ASEM: Partnership
for the Future through Connectivity
Indian delegation is led by Vice President
Mohmmad Hamid Ansari
This meeting is attributed towards
contributing to the maintenance and
promotion of peace, stability and
prosperity in the region and the world
To discuss the financial needs of the five
BRICS countries used for Infrastructure

11th ASEM summit

Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia

ASEAN member countries

Finance Ministers meet

Laotian, Vientiane

New Development Banks board

of directors

Shanghai, China

India Education Fair

Dhaka, Bangladesh

inaugurated by the Indian High

Commissioner Harsh Vardhan Sringla

the BRICS Heads of Drug Control

Agencies Working Group Meeting

New Delhi

Inaugurated by Shri Rajnath Singh and

organized by the Narcotics Control Bureau
(NCB).

International summit on TobaccoControl

India

In November 2016

Make in India conference

Bhubaneswar

In December 2016

Startup India States

New Delhi

This conference will serve as a platform

for all states to discuss the progress,
policies and good practices

August
Summits& Conferences

Hosts

Notes

First Tech Meet Of Hydrocarbon

Vision 2030

Guwahati, Assam

To deliberate the issues pertaining to the

implementation of the Vision document with
an investment of Rs 1,30,000 crore over
the next 15 years.

Counter-Terrorism Financing
(CTF) Summit 2016

Bali, Indonesia

Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju represented India

Tomorrows India Global

Summit
SAARC Young Parliamentarians
Conference (YPC) on `Peace and
Harmony for Development
19th SAARC Summit

Seoul

SAARC Interior Ministers and

Immigration Authorities

Islamabad,
Pakisthan

Islamabad,
Pakisthan.
Pakistan

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YPC intends to offer young parliamentarians

narrative as a prelude to the 19th SAARC
summit
November 2016
The meeting was chaired by Pakistans
Director General Immigration and Passports
Usman A. Bajwa.

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South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation
(Saarc) interior ministers
SAARC Finance Minister Meet

Islamabad,
Pakisthan

World Economic Forum(WEF)

New Delhi

Global Conference on Aluminum

Bubhaneshwar

National Conference of
Investigation Agencies

New Delhi

India International Footwear Fair

New Delhi

BRICS Womens
Parliamentarian Forum

Jaipur, Rajasthan

BRICS meeting on Disaster Risk

Reduction

Udaipur

6th Tokyo International

Conference on African
Development
Eighth meeting of SAARCSTAT
and delegates from SAARC
Member States
State level Watershed
Conference

Nairobi, Kenya

Nagaland
Kohima.

To grant 33% reservation to women in Urban

Local Bodies

CII-IIEST Conference

Kolkata

International Arbitration BROCS

Conference

New Delhi

Theme Enabling Make in India through

Industry Academia Innovation Platform
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
suggested creation of a task force of experts

Islamabad,
Pakisthan

New Delhi

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Indian-Occupied Kashmir became the hot

topic at dais amid killings of over 50 innocent
Kashmiri youth at the hands of Indian forces.
To discuss and devise a mechanism for
regional trade promotion. SAARC
Development Fund (SDC) operations would be
made more effective for the development of
the region.
Theme : Fostering an Inclusive India through
Digital Transformation
Hosted by Aluminium Association
of India (AAI) from February 15 to 17, 2017
Organized by the Bureau of Police Research
and Development (BPR&D) and the National
Investigation Agency (NIA) of India.
Inagurated by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
Selfie Stations which focus on the national
campaigns of the Government of India
i.First session on the theme of Achieving
SDGs- Role of Women Parliamentarians in
involving Citizens.
ii.Theme of the second session, to be held on
the second day on August 21, was Containing
Climate Change Imperatives of Global
Cooperation.
iii.Adopted the Jaipur declaration calling upon
international financial institutions to support
and facilitate financing for development on
favorable terms to developing and least
developed countries.
i.BRICS countries were striving to set up a
joint task force on disaster management as a
permanent forum for regular dialogue, mutual
support among the member nations.
ii. Meeting ended with the adoption of the
Udaipur Declaration.
It was the first-ever TICAD Summit to be held
in the African continent in its over 20 years of
history.
Theme of this Meeting is Trade Statistics
Merchandise & Services.

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