UK-India to strengthen legal links
Updated: Sep 01, 2014 12:22:25pm
New Delhi, Sept 1 (KNN) British Law Minister, Shailesh Vara is currently in the country to carry forward UK – India legal links. His visit is the latest in a series of senior British Government visitors to India to further develop the bilateral relationship with the new Indian Government.
“The United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for the Courts and Legal Aid at the Ministry of Justice, Shailesh Vara MP, will visit Delhi and Ahmedabad from 1-3 September 2014,” said an official release from the British High Commission.
“As a British Government Minister of Indian Origin this is a visit I am particularly looking forward to. The relationship between Britain and India is long and solid, and I am keen to strengthen it even further for the benefit of both nations. I have a number of meetings and events, both in New Delhi and Ahmedabad, during which I will be discussing matters of mutual interest between our two countries,” Vara said prior to his departure from the UK.
He will hold meetings with ministers, senior judicial officials and visit law colleges in Delhi and Ahmedabad, building on the close links that already exist between the Indian and British legal professions. He will also promote the Global Law Summit that will be held in London in February 2015.
In Delhi, Vara will meet human rights lawyers and British businesses; Energy Minister Piyush Goyal; Law, Justice and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad; Home Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju; Justice R M Lodha, Chief Justice of India and Chairman of the Bar Council of Delhi, K K Manan. On 2 September, he will visit Delhi’s National Law University.
Further, in Ahmedabad, he will call on the Director of the Gujarat National Law University deliver a speech and interact with students there. He will be felicitated by the Vishwa Gujarati Samaj who will present him with a Gujarat Gaurav Award. Vara will also visit the historic Sabarmati Ashram, the release said.
The Minister already has close links to India. A Gujarati speaker, he was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the Indian government earlier this year. He is also the first person of Gujarati origin to serve as a British Government Minister. (KNN/ES)
“The United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Minister for the Courts and Legal Aid at the Ministry of Justice, Shailesh Vara MP, will visit Delhi and Ahmedabad from 1-3 September 2014,” said an official release from the British High Commission.
“As a British Government Minister of Indian Origin this is a visit I am particularly looking forward to. The relationship between Britain and India is long and solid, and I am keen to strengthen it even further for the benefit of both nations. I have a number of meetings and events, both in New Delhi and Ahmedabad, during which I will be discussing matters of mutual interest between our two countries,” Vara said prior to his departure from the UK.
He will hold meetings with ministers, senior judicial officials and visit law colleges in Delhi and Ahmedabad, building on the close links that already exist between the Indian and British legal professions. He will also promote the Global Law Summit that will be held in London in February 2015.
In Delhi, Vara will meet human rights lawyers and British businesses; Energy Minister Piyush Goyal; Law, Justice and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad; Home Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju; Justice R M Lodha, Chief Justice of India and Chairman of the Bar Council of Delhi, K K Manan. On 2 September, he will visit Delhi’s National Law University.
Further, in Ahmedabad, he will call on the Director of the Gujarat National Law University deliver a speech and interact with students there. He will be felicitated by the Vishwa Gujarati Samaj who will present him with a Gujarat Gaurav Award. Vara will also visit the historic Sabarmati Ashram, the release said.
The Minister already has close links to India. A Gujarati speaker, he was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the Indian government earlier this year. He is also the first person of Gujarati origin to serve as a British Government Minister. (KNN/ES)
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