For India, it's time for Africa
Tuesday May 24, 2011 07:44:57 PM, IANS
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Addis
Ababa: Following are what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
said were "initiatives" that India was prepared to take as part of
its "emerging partnership" with Africa, a region which he said was
poised to become a "major growth pole for the world economy":* $5
billion for the next three years under lines of creidt for Africa
to help meet its development goals;
* An additional $700 million to establish new institutions and
training programmes;
* Support the development of a a new Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway
line worth $300 million under the line of credit;
* Establish an India-Africa Virtual University to meet the demand
in Africa for higher studies in Indian institutions; 10,000 new
scholarships will be available to African students at this
proposed university;
* Establish an India-Africa Food Processing Cluster;
* Establish an India-Africa Integrated Textiles Cluster;
* Establish an India-Africa Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasting;
* Establish an India-Africa University for Life and Earth
Sciences;
* Establish an India-Africa Institute for Agriculture and Rural
Development;
* Help set up more soil, water and tissue testing laboratories,
regional farm science centres, seed production-cum-demonstrations
centres and material testing laboratories for highways regionally;
* More English language training, information technology,
entrepreneurship development and vocational training institutes
bilaterally;
* More scholarships for African students under the Indian
Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme, taking total
scholarships to 22,000 for the next three years;
* Help set up an India-Africa Business Council;
* India will contribute $2 million to the African Union Mission in
Somalia; and
* Increase the access of African airlines to Indian cities.
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