Pravasi Bharatiya Divas | 09 Jan 2024

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) has been celebrated on 9^th January every year since 2003 to honor the Indian diaspora and the contribution of the overseas Indian community to the country's development.

• January 9 was chosen as the day to celebrate this occasion since it was on this day in 1915 that Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest Pravasi, returned to India from South Africa, and led India’s freedom struggle.
• Since 2015, its format has been revised to celebrate the PBD once every two years and to hold theme-based PBD Conferences during the intervening period

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