Project to facilitate networking between industry-RIE
India and South Korea have exchanged Notes for the Technical Cooperation Project titled ‘Strengthening Vocational Education and Training in Mechatronics in India’, on 20th Jan 2025 in New Delhi https://www.investindia.gov.in/.
The project will be implemented in collaboration with Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). It is a first project with KOICA https://www.cii.in/.
South Korea was designated as India’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) partner for development cooperation in October, 2016.
The signees were Manisha Sinha, Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Lee Seong-ho, the Korean Ambassador to India.
The Project, which spans over two years, aims to establish a basis of vocational education and training in mechatronics in India and will be implemented by NCERT at the Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Bhopal, where it will help build environment to pilot education in mechatronics by preparing curriculum, textbooks, teacher’s manual and equipment https://digitalinasia.com/.
The project will help build capacity of teachers in mechatronics while also facilitating networking between industry and RIE, Bhopal.
The bilateral relationship between the two countries was upgraded to ‘Special Strategic Partnership’ in the year 2015.
Signing of the exchange of notes for the NCERT project will further consolidate and strengthen the Special Strategic Partnership between India and South Korea, the Finance Ministry said. fiinews.com
