India and Japan on Saturday signed 16 agreements in the fields of high-speed trains, defence equipment and technology, security, infrastructure, education and economy including civil nuclear energy.
The agreements were signed after the
delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his
Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
The following are the agreements.
1. Memorandum concerning the agreement
on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy: Both sides
confirmed they have reached agreement on such cooperation.
2. Pact on high-speed trains: This
memorandum confirms cooperation in developing Mumbai-Ahmedabad
high-speed rail corridor using Japanese high-speed rail technologies and
financial and technical assistance.
3. Agreement concerning transfer of
defence equipment and technology: This agreement provides a framework to
enhance defence and security cooperation by making available to each
other defence equipment and technology necessary to implement joint
research, development and/or production projects.
4. Agreement concerning security
measures for the protection of classified military information: This
agreement ensures the reciprocal protection of classified military
information transmitted to each other, provided that the terms of
protection are consistent with the national laws and regulations of the
Receiving Party.
5. Agreement on amending protocol of
double taxation avoidance: This agreement amends the convention between
India and Japan for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention
of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income, signed in 1989.
6. Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC)
between India’s ministry of railways and Japan’s MLIT (ministry of land,
infrastructure, transport and tourism): This memorandum establishes
areas for comprehensive technological cooperation, including sharing of
information and best practices; exchanges of officials and technicians;
facilitating the participation of other institutions, organisations and
ministries; conducting joint research and studies.
7. Pact on technological cooperation
between India’s Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and
Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute (JRTRI): This memorandum
proposes cooperation in the areas of safety in train operations;
advanced techniques of maintenance; use of environment-friendly
technologies etc.
8. Letter of Intent on the strategic
international cooperation programme between India’s Department of
Science and Technology (DST) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency
(JSTA): The programme promotes and supports collaborative activities,
such as joint research projects, joint research laboratories and hub,
joint seminars, symposia and other meetings between the research
institutes and researchers supported by JSTA and DST.
9. Letter of Intent toward establishing a
young researcher’s exchange programme between the DST of India and the
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: The document intends to
establish reciprocal fellowship programme for capacity building and
human resource development in frontier areas of science and technology.
10. MoC between India’s Central Drugs
Standard Control Organization and Japan’s ministry of health, labour and
welfare: The memorandum establishes the medical products regulation
dialogue and cooperation framework to facilitate a constructive dialogue
in areas pertinent to raw materials for pharmaceutical use, biological
products and medical devices.
11. MoC in the field of education
between India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development and Japan’s
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The
memorandum encourages development of contacts and cooperation between
the educational institutions of the two countries and possible support
for exchange of aspiring students between India and Japan.
12. Statement of Intent between NITI
Aayog and Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ): This statement
lays down the broad mission of promoting cooperation between NITI Aayog
and IEEJ for the purpose of analysing issues related to energy sector in
order to examine and understand various energy sector related issues in
the world.
13. Pact on cooperation between state
government of Andhra Pradesh and Toyama Prefecture: The memorandum
strengthens existing bonds between Andhra Pradesh and Toyama by
facilitating mutual collaboration between their governments,
institutions, and companies.
14. MoU between state government of
Kerala and Lake Nakaumi, Lake Shinji and Mt. Daisen area Mayors
Association: Under the memorandum, Kerala and the Sanin region, Japan,
agree to develop trade, investment and economic relations between the
business circles with particular focus on small and medium enterprises.
15. MoU between Indian Institute of
Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and Japan’s National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies (GRIPS): The memorandum promotes collaboration between
the two institutions to enrich the intellectual environment of both.
16. MoC between India’s Ministry of
Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Japan’s Ministry of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: The memorandum endeavours to
enhance cooperation in human resource development and institutional
exchange between training institutes, sustainable forest management,
enhancement of forest conservation and forest disaster prevention.
