Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma through the ‘Pravasi Rajasthan Diwas’, in Jaipur, December 10, 2025. Photograph: X/@BhajanlalBjp.
The primary-ever Pravasi Rajasthani Diwas celebrations in Jaipur on Wednesday (December 10, 2025) witnessed some main financial bulletins and the groundbreaking of funding proposals value ₹1 lakh crore in Rajasthan.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma inaugurated the programme, calling upon the Rajasthani diaspora to stay “related with (their) roots”.
A lot of Non-Resident Rajasthanis (NRRs) settled in varied States within the nation and overseas participated within the occasion. Mr. Sharma urged the NRRs to play a job in making a “trendy and affluent” Rajasthan. Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Bhupender Yadav and C.R. Patil additionally attended the programme.
The launch of memorandums of understanding value ₹1 lakh crore took the full carried out investments from the ‘Rising Rajasthan’ world funding summit, held in December 2024, to ₹8 lakh crore, out of the full signed agreements value ₹35 lakh crore. Mr. Sharma mentioned Rajasthan, with greater than 24 new insurance policies, had emerged as essentially the most most popular State for funding within the nation.
Mr. Sharma introduced the institution of 14 new chapters of Rajasthan Basis, which is the State’s nodal division for diaspora outreach, to strengthen the reference to NRRs. 9 of those chapters shall be established overseas and 5 in varied States. 9 distinguished NRRs have been additionally honoured on the event.
The Chief Minister mentioned the State had made vital progress in varied sectors and addressed the ability and water disaster. “Each sector in Rajasthan holds an immense potential, together with training, tourism and mining. The State produces 85 various kinds of minerals,” Mr. Sharma mentioned, whereas inviting the Rajasthani diaspora to speculate throughout totally different sectors.
Addressing the gathering, Union Minister of Commerce and Trade Goyal mentioned the Centre was supporting Rajasthan within the fields of commercial growth, tourism, power and social upliftment. “NRRs have enhanced the State’s repute and established its true identification by their exhausting work, struggles and success,” Mr. Goyal mentioned.
A Pravasi Rajasthani coverage was unveiled on the event to supply a roadmap for amenities and funding alternatives for NRRs residing in numerous elements of the world. The State authorities has additionally established a devoted division for NRRs to supply an efficient platform to reinforce communication, cooperation, funding and cultural connections.
Totally different periods masking industries reminiscent of power, water, mining, training, tourism and well being have been organised through the occasion. The distinguished NRRs who held interactions included Vedanta founder Anil Agarwal, Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, Avaada Group chairman Vineet Mittal, and Piramal Group chairman Ajay Piramal.
Rajasthan Governor Haribhau Bagade, Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, and Union Minister of State for Agricultural Bhagirath Choudhary have been additionally current.
Printed – December 11, 2025 08:59 am IST
