Modi to visit Washington for Quad Summit and New York for UNGA next week
The Hindu
Modi is one of about 109 leaders to address the General Assembly in person.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the White House on Friday, September 24, to participate in a . Mr Modi will then travel to New York, where he will address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Saturday morning. The , is the first in-person meeting of its kind at the White House.
The four leaders will review progress made since their first virtual summit held in March, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. Specifically, they will review the Quad Vaccine Initiative, a plan to manufacture (in India) at least 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines, for distribution in Asia by the end of 2022.
“Hosting the leaders of the Quad demonstrates the Biden-Harris Administration’s priority of engaging in the Indo-Pacific, including through new multilateral configurations to meet the challenges of the 21st century,” the White House said on Tuesday.
Welcoming the State government’s decision to teach skill education under competency-based National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF), BJP MLC Shashil Namoshi has demanded that the government teach it as a separate and additional subject instead of giving an option to opt for it in place of third language.