NEW DELHI: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed an agreement with the Metal Industries Development Institute (MIDI), Ethiopia to implement a twinning programme.
The agreement was signed on June 7 at Addis Ababa by Director of National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur (CSIR-NML) on behalf of the participating CSIR Laboratories, and the Director General of MIDI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Keeping in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stress on stronger and long-term cooperation between African countries and India for mutual benefits in the areas of agriculture, women empowerment, rural development, infrastructure, etc, the CSIR has entered into the agreement with the MIDI, Ethiopia to implement the twinning programme.
The same is aimed at R&D capacity building of MIDI. The twinning is one of the largest programmes (in terms of contractual amount) between a CSIR institute and a foreign entity, Ministry of Science & Technology said in a statement today. It would also facilitate CSIR’s future collaborations with the African organisations.
It was signed in the presence of Dr Alemu Sime, State Minister of Industry, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Mr Teshome Lemma, State Minister of Education, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Dr Girish Sahni, Director General, CSIR and Mr Anurag Srivastava, Ambassador of India to Ethiopia, Djibouti and African Union.
Dr Sahni, on the occasion, said the knowledge base of CSIR in the identified areas could be of immense importance for leveraging the technology capacity of African countries.
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