The governor welcomed King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia.
In honor of the Swedish Royal Couple Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, Bandra-Worli sea link is lit up with blue and yellow, symbolizing.
The Royals from Sweden - King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia with @AfrozShah1 and all of us, picking up waste. Telling the world that we need to work together on tackling plastic pollution. Commoners , Royals , young leaders, @mybmc @MumbaiPolice working to #BeatPlasticPollution
Swedish King Carl and Queen Silvia visited Door Step School at Cuff Parade and communicated with the school students. Door Step School implements various programmes to create an interest in learning and encourage children who don’t go to school.
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Yesterday afternoon, Their Majesties participated in the India Sweden Business Leaders Roundtable (ISBLRT), which is a joint high-level platform for business leaders from Sweden and India. At ISBLRT common challenges and opportunities within the fields of research, innovation, investments, trade- amongst others- are identified and discussed. Swedish Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation Ibrahim Baylan, and Minister of Commerce and Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal (@piyushgoyalofficial ) also attended the roundtable.
Swedish participation is coordinated by the Sweden India Business Council (@swedenindiabusiness ) and the Indian participation by the Confederation of Indian Industry.
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In the afternoon, Their Majesties and Ann Linde (@annlindepolitiker ) met and greeted the staff of the Embassy of Sweden, Consulates and Business Sweden in the Ambassador’s Residence. Their Majesties were received by Mr Klas Molin, Ambassador of Sweden to India and Ms Theresa Ildefonso, Spouse of the Ambassador of Sweden to India.
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Today
After leaving Delhi, Their Majesties King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden arrived in Mumbai early Wednesday morning.
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Their Majesties visited Versova Beach and participated, under the guidance of Afroz Shah in a beach clean-up activity. Their Majesties also got the opportunity to interact with some of the volunteers working with the clean-up activity. Afroz Shah started the project ‘Versova Beach Clean up’ in 2015, which has been called the world’s largest beach cleaning project by the UN Environment Programme. It is entirely managed by volunteers who gather to clean-up the beach every weekend, and until 2018, approximately 20 million kilo litters of waste has been collected.
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Their Majesties attended a lunch hosted by the Governor of Maharashtra, Mr Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray.
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In the afternoon, Their Majesties visited Door Step School, a non-profit organization that provides education to underprivileged children. Since its foundation in 1988, the school has helped over 50000 children. Door Step School has also been a pioneer regarding the concept of the School on Wheels, which is a mobile classroom that makes education more accessible.
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Their Majesties attended the Tekla workshop and dialogue, which were organized by the Swedish Institute and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in collaboration with the Indian partner Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog. Tekla consists of two parts: a workshop on coding and engineering for girls (led by staff from KTH) and a panel discussion on underrepresentation of women in technology and ways of empowering women and girls within the STEM sector.
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At the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel (@tajmahalmumbai ), Their Majesties commemorated the victims of the Mumbai attacks of 2008.
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In the evening the king and queen attended at a reception hosted by The Consul General of Sweden Ms Anna Lekvall at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Museum.
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The royal court at its website about the third day of the visit
The third day of the state visit began with a visit to the city of Mumbai. On arrival, the King and Queen were received by Nand Kumar, representative of the Maharashtra government and Anna Lekvall, Sweden's Consul General in Mumbai.
Bollywood - the world's largest film industry
Mumbai is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and India's financial and commercial center. Here are many large Indian companies that together generate about 6 percent of India's total GDP.
Mumbai is also the heart of the Indian film industry - Bollywood - which is the world's largest film industry and produces upwards of a thousand films every year. Bollywood's history goes back to 1899, about ten years before Hollywood began producing films.
Beach cleaning on Versova Beach
At Versova Beach, the royal couple was welcomed by the lawyer and environmental activist Afroz Shah, who told us about the beach cleaning project in Versova.
The UN environmental program has called Versova Beach Clean Up, the world's largest beach cleaning project. The project was started by Mumbai-based lawyer and activist Afroz Shah in 2015 and awarded the Champions of the Earth Award by the UN 2016. The project is run entirely by volunteers who gather every weekend to clean up the beach.
Before the cleanup began, Versova Beach was considered one of Mumbai's most degraded beaches. Up to last year, 20 million kilograms of waste have been collected and now reports of turtles returning to the beach. Sweden has participated in the project through education for schools in the area about the "Keep Sweden Tidy" campaign.
Lunch at Maharashtra's Governor
On arrival at the residence of Maharashtra's governor, the royal couple was welcomed by Governor Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis, who hosted the lunch.
The governor of Maharashtra is appointed by the central government and Bhagat Singh Koshyari took office in September this year. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was elected in 2014 and is one of India's young leading politicians.
Maharashtra is India's leading industrial state and more than a hundred Swedish companies operate here. About 35,000 people are employed by Swedish companies, making Maharashtra the second largest state when it comes to jobs created by Swedish companies. 38 of the Swedish companies have their Indian headquarters in Mumbai.
Visit at Door Step School
The royal couple received a traditional welcome, called "Arti Tika Garland", in the form of a dot in the forehead and a flower wreath. Then a presentation of the school and a guided tour were given through the classrooms where the King and Queen were given the opportunity to meet some of the students. The royal couple also visited schoolchildren in the School on Wheels bus, the mobile classroom for street children created by Door Step School.
Door Step School is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 and offers education to the most vulnerable and often forgotten children from families in slums. The organization's work focuses on the problems that result from unemployment, resource wasting and stagnation in the public school. Over 50,000 children have participated in the initiative since its inception and the organization has activities in both Mumbai and Pune.
Tekla
In the afternoon, the King and Queen visited a workshop and dialogue on Tekla, a project created by the Swedish Institute and the Royal Institute of Technology. The aim of the project is to attract more young girls to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This is done through "Teklafestivaler" where girls are given the opportunity to participate in coding and technology workshops.
The workshop in Mumbai is organized in collaboration with the Indian initiative Atal innovation mission. Previously, Tekla festivals have been held in Stockholm, Washington DC, New York and Brasilia.
Kungaparets statsbesök i Indien – dag 3 - Sveriges Kungahus
Yesterday the king and queen gave an interview to Aftonbladet
Kung Carl XVI Gustaf hyllar Greta Thunberg _ Statsbesök i Indien _ Aftonbladet
