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Dear colleagues
This is our pleasure and privilege to extend you a warm invitation to attend the 62nd Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society at B.M. Birla Convention Center Jaipur from 17th to 20th January 2010. The Invitation is well in advance to ensure your participation in the conference and also to facilitate your planning ahead.
Jaipur popularly known as pink city of India has a rich tradition of organizing conferences. This would be the fourth all India event to be held in psychiatry, apart from many zonal and state level conference and conferences of specialties of psychiatry. Those of you who attended the 1986 and 1998 conferences would remember the hospitality which we have offered in the past and the quality scientific and social events. Many colleagues nationally and internationally who could not participate in those events and heard about them have expressed a keen desire to join us next year and you will have a personal experience of meeting all of them.
Founded in 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population to more than 5 million residents. It offers rich heritage of tourism, traditional hospitality and be assured that standard of scientific events shall be unmatched. The palace quarter enclose a sprawing palace complex (the Hawa Mahal, or palace of winds), formal gardens, and a small lake. Nahargarh Fort crowns the hill in the northwest corner of the old city. Another noteworthy building is Sawai Jai Singh抯 observatory, Jantar Mantar. Apart from the local attractions of historical monuments, handicrafts, including the famous colourful Sanganeri prints, royal footwear and a feeling of pink while walking in the pink streets of downtown. Rajasthan also offers many other touristic attractions including palaces and Ranthambore tiger reserve and your quest will be fulfilled in pre and post conference tours.
Whilst feeling grateful for Jaipur having been chosen as the venue of next conference, we are pleased to share with you that there will be effective representation of World Psychiatric Association, Royal College of Psychiatrists, South Asian Psychiatric Federation, British Indian Psychiatric Association, Indo American Psychiatric Association, Indo-Canadian Psychiatric Association and Indo-Australian Psychiatric association.
We at the organizing committee have determined to beat our previous standards. Let us assure you, that no menu and venue is repeated in our endeavors. We, therefore advise you to plan to stay in Jaipur on all four days and keep rest of your week free for seeing the scenic beauty of Rajasthan, which ranges from hills to desert. We look forward to witnessing your presence at this truly global event.
This first letter is to request you to send us your expectations from the organizing committee. We are planning to make it an event which will match or even better any international conference you have attended so far, which will include arrangements at the congress site, scientific sessions, publications, travel arrangements, hospitality counters, and so on?. Still we would like to retain the Indian ethnic touch.
Are you tempted to come? If yes the write to us immediately, we are looking forward to your reply and to welcome you.
This is first communication; you will receive first announcement with all the details of registration and invitation of scientific papers, award papers, workshops and symposia, details of your stay arrangements and how to reach us by mid of April. Other announcements shall be reaching you periodically.
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