In a bid to spotlight people-to-people contacts between Eire and India, the Embassy of Eire in India will launch the Eire-India Affinity Diaspora Community right here on Wednesday (September 11). The community goals to convey collectively Indian professionals who’ve labored or studied in Eire.
“It presents a singular platform to reconnect with alumni and former colleagues, offering alternatives to take part in occasions celebrating Irish and Indian tradition. This initiative is especially well timed because it coincides with the seventy fifth anniversary of diplomatic relations between Eire and India. Eire’s Ambassador to India, Kevin Kelly, mentioned The Hindu.
In keeping with Irish sources, there are roughly 550 Irish residents dwelling in India and present estimates are that over 80,000 Indian residents reside in Eire, representing 1% of Eire’s inhabitants. Eire has the fourth largest variety of Indian residents resident within the EU (after Italy, Germany and the Netherlands). The Irish Embassy mentioned that Eire has the second largest inhabitants of Indian college students within the EU after Germany as per the most recent knowledge from December 2022.
At present, 8,507 Indian college students are learning in Irish academic establishments.
There’s a sturdy community of pros who studied in Eire and have become the nation’s goodwill envoys in India. The Affinity Diaspora community might be inaugurated by Biocon Restricted’s Govt Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar Shaw on September 11.
Revealed – September 10, 2024 04:54 am IST