Science, tech, space in focus as India & Mauritius ink pacts

India and Mauritius signed a sequence of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to deepen cooperation in science, know-how, governance, power and space as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritius counterpart Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam held bilateral talks in Varanasi on Thursday.

The division of science and know-how and the ministry of tertiary training, science and analysis of Mauritius signed an MoU on cooperation in science and know-how. Another pact was signed between the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Institute of Oceanography and the Mauritius Oceanography Institute.

Karmayogi Bharat, below the division of personnel and coaching, signed an MoU with the ministry of public service and administrative reforms of Mauritius. Other agreements included cooperation in the facility sector, Indian grant help for Phase II of Small Development Projects, and renewal of the MoU on hydrography, in keeping with a authorities press communiqué.

An settlement was additionally signed on cooperation for the institution of a telemetry, monitoring and telecommunications station for satellites and launch automobiles, as nicely as collaboration in space analysis and purposes, the discharge stated.

Additional bulletins included MoUs between IIT-Madras and the University of Mauritius and between the Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bengaluru, and the University of Mauritius.

India and Mauritius agreed to take ahead a government-to-government proposal for a 17.5 MW floating photo voltaic PV undertaking at Tamarind Falls. A group from NTPC Ltd will quickly go to Mauritius to finalise an settlement with the Central Electricity Board, the discharge stated.