India plans more meetings under G20 presidency

As many as 10 meetings are planned for this month only, which include the third tourism working group meeting in Srinagar on May 22-24, and the Youth20 consultation meeting next week.

The Youth20 engagement group also had a day-long consultation in Manipur’s Imphal on Thursday. As per officials, no more meetings have been planned in Manipur.

In fact, the G20 calendar now enters a frantic phase, with as many as 125 meetings to be held in the next four months, in the run-up to the G20 Leaders Summit on September 9-10 in New Delhi. As many as 105 meetings under various engagement groups, Sherpa tracks and ministerial meetings have taken place in the last five months, ever since India assumed the G20 Presidency in December 2022. Even as India’s G20 presidency concludes on November 30, the months post summit are going to be lean in terms of meetings are parleys, and will have a few side events.

India has also taken several new initiatives under its presidency, officials said. These include the G20 Chief Scientific Advisors Roundtable, that brings together the Chief Scientific advisors of the G20 Heads of state, with an aim to create an effective institutional platform to discuss global science and technology policy. The first meeting of G20-CSAR was held in Uttarakhand’s Ramnagar in March.