Speaker to attend 64th C’wealth Parliamentary Conference in Uganda
| Date :12-Sep-2019 |
Dr Charan Das Mahant Chandra Shekhar Gangrade
Staff Reporter :
The theme of the conference - scheduled to take place from Sept 22 to Sept 29 - is ‘Adaptation, Engagement and Evolution of Parliaments in a rapidly changing Commonwealth’
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Speaker Dr Charan Das Mahant and Legislative Assembly Secretary Chandra Shekhar Gangrade will be attending the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, 2019, scheduled to take place from September 22 to September 29 at Kampala in Uganda. Accordingly, Speaker Dr Charan Das Mahant, accompanied by wife, Korba MP Jyotsna Mahant and Secretary Chandra Shekhar Gangrade, will be leaving Raipur for Mumbai on September 14. From Mumbai, the Speaker and his entourage will leave on September 15 at 4 am by Ethiopian Airlines flight and reach Johannesburg in South Africa.
From here the Speaker will proceed to Chicago and Atlanta in USA on study tour. The Speaker will reach Kampala, Uganda on September 24 to participate in the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, 2019. The 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, 2019, will be participated by 500 parliamentarians, parliamentary staff and decision makers from across the Commonwealth countries. The theme of the conference is ‘Adaptation, Engagement and Evolution of Parliaments in a rapidly changing Commonwealth’.
However, during the Conference, numbers of additional conferences and meetings including 37th CPA Small Branches Conference, 6th Triennial Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Conference, 64th CPA General Assembly, meetings of the CPA Executive Committee and the Society of Clerks at the Table (SOCATT) meeting will be held. The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), founded in 1911, is an international community of around 180 Commonwealth Parliaments and Legislatures working together towards Commonwealth’s commitment to the highest standard of democratic governance.