India, Germany sign six new pacts :

India and Germany inked six key MoUs : -

► Putting together € 7 million for next four years towards joint research in the field of higher education and a pact for a soft loan of € 1 billion for strengthening the green energy corridor.

► A pact to promote German as a foreign language was also signed by the two sides following the 2nd round of inter-governmental Consultations in Berlin.

► Under pacts signed, both Germany and India have committed to € 3.5 million each towards working on joint research and innovation programmes.

► According to officials, under the strengthening of German language collaboration, currently 30,000 children in Kendriya Vidyalaya are learning German and under the pact they will try to increase the capacity.

► A pact regarding the establishment of green energy corridor was also signed besides one in agriculture and establishment of a working group in infrastructure, cooperation in standardisation, conformity assessment and product safety.

► Under the pact for the green energy corridor, the grid system in several states will be used to transmit energy produced by renewable and non-conventional means.

Another pact for Indo-German civil security research was also signed.


Courtesy: The Hindu 

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