New Delhi: India and Sri Lanka on Thursday extend their existing science & technology cooperation for three years with a focus on new areas such as waste-water, biotech, sustainable agriculture, aerospace engineering, robotics, artificial analysis and artificial intelligence.
The two countries also reviewed collaborative activities that were ongoing in nine regions which included food technology; Medicines, Meteorology, Research Rooms & Plant Based Applications, Industrial Electronics, Renewable Energy, Waste Management, Information Technology and Communication, and discuss their future activities at the 5th Combined Committee in India-Sri Lanka on Science and Technical Cooperation, Virtually held.
“India and Sri Lanka have a large inheritance of intellectual, cultural, and religious interaction and relations of more than 2500 years.
Trade and investment and cooperation in education and other sectors have increased in several times, and in this line, cooperation in s & T becomes very critical, “said Varshney, advisor and head, international cooperation, the Department of Science and Technology (DST), who led the Indian delegation.
India, Lanka extends cooperation in Tech & Science for 3 years
