INDIA TO MARKET BELARUS TECHNOLOGIES
India has agreed
to help market and commercialise technologies evolved by Belarus.
It has developed some advanced technologies in the fields of optical
components, laser and its medical applications. The optical components
include some highly impressive night vision gadgets. The two sides
have already identified a number of areas for joint collaboration
which came up for a review, when the visiting First Deputy Foreign
Minister of Belarus, Mr. Vassily Pugachev, had a meeting with
the Minister for Human Resource Development and Science &
Technology, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, here yesterday evening.
Underlining the need
to strengthen Indo-Belarusian scientific cooperation, Dr. Joshi
offered support in all fields in which India is highly advanced
including supercomputing, vaccines and diagnostics and drugs and
pharmaceuticals. He told Mr. Pugachev that Indian technologies
are very efficient and cost-effective.
Recently, the two
countries signed a programme of co-operation identifying, Advanced
Materials, Biotechnology, Electronics, Information Technology,
Medical Research and Laser Science, as areas of scientific collaboration.
Belarus played an
important role in setting up of the International Advanced Research
Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials in Hyderabad. It
is one of the technologically well-developed countries of the
erstwhile Soviet Union and highly advanced in several areas of
frontier technology.
The two Ministers
also discussed the holding of an exhibition of "The Indian Days
of Science and Technology", in Belarus towards the end of the
year. Belarusian days of S&T was held in India last February.
