The Overseas Indians estimated to be around 25 million spread across 130 countries, constitute significant economic, social & cultural force in the world. In order to facilitate their engagement with India an Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC) has been established in May 2007.

OIFC is a public private partnership of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Envisioned to act as a one-stop shop for overseas Indians, it has mandate to cover two broad areas viz. Investment facilitation and Knowledge networking.

The Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre will provide a host of investment and business advisory services to potential overseas investors. In order to provide quality services, OIFC has a strong back-end support in the form of eminent Knowledge Partners. It will function as non-profit body with the objective of promoting overseas Indian investments in Indian and facilitating business-to-business partnership between Indian business and overseas Indians. For further information please visit: www.oifc.in

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas- the annual conclave of Indian Diaspora, is being held on 8th and 9thJanuary 2008 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The theme of the event is 'Engaging the Diaspora: The Way Forward'. One of the striking features of the event is that for the first time there would be separate market place of OIFC Knowledge Partners so that all the queries of Overseas Indians can be attended one-to-one directly by our back end Partners. Online registration for the event has started. For more details and to register online, kindly log on to www.pbdindia.org.