India, Nov. 8 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will inaugurate the 22nd annual conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region Zone-III in Kohima on November 10.

The two-day conference will witness participation from presiding officers, MPs, and MLAs of Zone III of CPA India Region, consisting of eight states of the northeastern region.

The conference will be held on the theme policy, progress & people: legislatures as catalysts of change, while its sub-themes will be the role of legislatures in achieving Viksit Bharat and climate change, in the light of recent cloudbursts and landslides in parts of the northeast region.

The closing ceremony will be addressed by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh.

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