Sakura Tree Planting Ceremony at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute
2019/2/19
Following the planting ceremonies at the State House and at the University of Mauritius, the Embassy of Japan and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute held a Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Tree Planting Ceremony on the institute’s premises in Moka, on the morning of the 31st of January 2019.
Prior to the ceremony, Ambassador Kato, was welcomed at the main office by the Chairman of Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) & the Rabindranath Tagore Institute (RTI), Mr Jaynarain Meetoo, together with the Director- General of the MGI and the RTI, Mrs Sooryakanti Nirsimloo-Gayan, GOSK, and the Director of the MGI, Dr V.D Koonjal.
Through the conversation on the Sakura Tree planting, they touched upon the possibility of further collaboration between the MGI and Japan.
Afterwards, the planting ceremony was held in the garden of the MGI, in the presence of both the MGI and the Embassy’s members as well as some students and press. Both parties essentially mentioned the importance of the Sakura tree in the Japanese tradition and culture and how the introduction of the Sakura tree at the MGI will also strengthen the relations between Japan and Mauritius.
After the ceremony, the Ambassador visited the MGI Museum which presents the role of the MGI in the preservation of the memory of the introduction of Indian Indentured laborers and their diaspora in Mauritius.
The next Sakura Tree planting ceremony is scheduled at Trou aux Cerfs, near the Doppler Radar Meteorological Station in Curepipe, in next March.
Prior to the ceremony, Ambassador Kato, was welcomed at the main office by the Chairman of Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) & the Rabindranath Tagore Institute (RTI), Mr Jaynarain Meetoo, together with the Director- General of the MGI and the RTI, Mrs Sooryakanti Nirsimloo-Gayan, GOSK, and the Director of the MGI, Dr V.D Koonjal.
Through the conversation on the Sakura Tree planting, they touched upon the possibility of further collaboration between the MGI and Japan.
Afterwards, the planting ceremony was held in the garden of the MGI, in the presence of both the MGI and the Embassy’s members as well as some students and press. Both parties essentially mentioned the importance of the Sakura tree in the Japanese tradition and culture and how the introduction of the Sakura tree at the MGI will also strengthen the relations between Japan and Mauritius.
After the ceremony, the Ambassador visited the MGI Museum which presents the role of the MGI in the preservation of the memory of the introduction of Indian Indentured laborers and their diaspora in Mauritius.
The next Sakura Tree planting ceremony is scheduled at Trou aux Cerfs, near the Doppler Radar Meteorological Station in Curepipe, in next March.
