Margherita announced that India will undertake one Quick Impact Project (QIP) of each country's choice worth USD 50,000 in each of the 14 Pacific Island Countries.
Margherita said that India and the Pacific's bilateral development partnership in the form of grant-in-aid projects worth about USD 3 million per annum are demand-driven and have had high impact in the 14 Pacific partner countries
Minister of State for External Affairs and Textiles, Pabitra Margherita (MoS), will undertake a visit to Tonga on August 28-29, 2024 to attend the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders' Meeting with Dialogue Partners.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union Ministers Kiren Rijiju and Pabitra Margherita, Assam BJP President Bhabesh Kalita, and other senior leaders will attend the meeting.
In a significant step towards creating a trained workforce in the handicrafts and handloom sector and generating employment opportunities, Minister of State for Textiles and External Affairs, Pabitra Margherita on Saturday inaugurated the Bunkar and Karigar Utthan Upskilling Programme FY
Apart from ways to strengthen regional cooperation, the talks also featured improving connectivity, energy, trade, health, agriculture, science, security and people-to-people exchanges.
Reacting to Congress leader and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi's Assam visit, Pabitra Margherita, Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Textiles on Tuesday requested the Congress to not spread "venom of politics" in Assam and North East as the state is in "peace".