Monitoring Desk,02-May; Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will attend the 56th Annual General Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in South Korea today, May 2. The Indian delegation, comprising officials from the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance departed last evening.
The meetings will be attended by official delegations of ADB members, observers, non-governmental and civil society organisations, financial institutions and banks, and other private sector companies. During the four day visit, Ms Sitharaman will also participate in annual meeting focal events like the Governors’ Business, and also as a panelist in the ADB Governors’ Seminar on Policies to Support Asia’s Rebound.