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Website launched for Modi's US reception

Darpan News Desk IANS, 23 Aug, 2014 08:08 AM
    The Indian American Community Foundation (IACF) has launched a website to give a community reception for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the US in September, a media report said Saturday.
     
    The website, pmvisit.org, will ensure the success of the Sep 28 event where he will address an estimated 20,000 people, news analysis website Niti Central reported.
     
    According to the IACF, more than 300 Indian American organisations have come together to organise the reception. It will be held at the Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York.
     
    Interested community organisations have been requested to mobilise people to attend the function. Volunteers have been invited to help out.

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