As part of the celebration of 'International Year of Millets-2023', the Embassy has been organising a focused one-week millet campaign from 22-28 January 2023. On the fifty day of the focused campaign, millet dishes were served at the National Day Morning event in the Embassy premises as well as the National Day Reception in the evening on 26.01.2023. About 250 persons enjoyed the millet cuisine. During his address to the audiences, Mr. Vinay Kumar, Cd'A highlighted the background for the celebration of 2023 as the "International Year of Millets" and also spoke about the benefits of the uses of millets. A small exhibition on various millet items including ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook millet items, was organised at the reception venue. A video on millets was played during the event. Leaflets containing information on the benefits of the uses of various millets products were also distributed to the attendees.
