India and Australia agree to enhance collaborative research on Climate Change

India and Australia on Friday agreed to enhance collaborative research in fields of climate change, water conservation, soil science, research, among or areas, HRD Ministry said. This was discussed in a meeting between Union Minister for Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal and an Australian delegation led by country's Education Minister Dan Tehan. 

India and Australia to have collaborative research

"I would like to congratulate Australian side for having a productive meeting and I am looking forward for continuous cooperation in field of education in future as well," minister said after meeting. 

54 joint projects initiated

Pokhriyal said that as many as 54 joint projects from Australian and Indian institutions have been initiated in less than a year since launch of Scheme for Promotion of Acemic Research & Collaboration (SPARC). Minister also said y have started a short term India-centric courses related to Yoga, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, etc and hoped for Australia's participation. SPARC is a scheme initiated by  ministry for improving quality of higher education by way of internationalisation of higher education.

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'I can understand India’s caution about RCEP'

Earlier, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said 'I can understand India’s caution about RCEP.' "While I’m all in favour of generous assistance to countries in difficulties, I am very wary of anything that might end up leaving vulnerable countries permanently indebted to ar,” he ded. Let’s ensure that in years to come re is at least as much Australian focus on relationship with India as re was in that 30-year period on relationship with China," former Australian Prime Minister said.

India and Australia also share political, ecomic, security, lingual and sporting ties. In year 2015-16, total value of tre between Australia and India was A$19.4 billion. 

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