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Uniindia: New Delhi/Suva, May 15 (UNI) India conveyed its warm greetings to Fiji on the special occasion of Girmit Day – to commemorate the day when the first batch of Indian indentured labourers arrived via ship to Fiji on May 14, 1879, under then British colonial rule.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says the social and economic contributions of the girmitiyas to Fiji are immeasurable, yet the acknowledgement is long overdue. .