Singapore keen to collaborate in outer space

Singapore Government will set up a Skill Center at Guwahati which will cater to the entire North-Eastern region, Union Minister of State of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr Jitendra Singh, has announced.

Singh announced this after a meeting with a high-level delegation represented by the High Commissioner of Singapore, Lim Thuan Kuan, in New Delhi on 18 September 2017.

Dr Jitendra Singh, led senior officers from the Ministry of DoNER, Department of Space and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, which are the three main areas where Singapore has expressed its keenness to collaborate with India.

As far as Skill Centre at Guwahati, a Memorandum of Understanding has already been formalized between Singapore and the State Government of Assam.

As a follow-up to this, a Skill Center is proposed to be set up at Guwahati by the year 2019 and the Ministry of DoNER will coordinate in this initiative.

The Singapore delegation also expressed its preference to engage with India in the area of Space Technology for collaboration in “peaceful uses of Outer Space”. To this, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the issue will be followed up in an appropriate manner.

The Singapore delegation also wanted to seek the experience and expertise of India’s Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions to bring about value addition in public administration and governance in Singapore.

Dr Jitendra Singh shared with them that there already exists an arrangement between Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) Mussoorie with Singapore, wherein a certain number of passing out Civil Services/IAS officers, accompanied by two faculty members, regularly undertake a visit to Singapore. fii-news.com