Belarus and India will set up a laser-optical center in New Delhi, which would operate as a part of the defense industry system of India, chair of the State Committee for Science and Technology of Belarus Vladimir Matiushkov told BelTA.
“The Indian side has already approved the project and settled all the issues concerning locating and financing the center”, Vladimir Matiushkov said. Experts of the National Academy of Sciences and the industry ministry of this country have been involved in the project.
According to the source, Belarus and India have also agreed to set up an IT center in the Belarusian High-Tech Park.
When commenting upon the executive program on the Belarusian-Indian science and technology cooperation by 2010, approved in New Delhi, Vladimir Matiushkov informed that the document describes actions in regard to 31 joint projects. Some 16 of them are planned to be carried out by the organizations of the education ministry of Belarus and 15 – by the institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of this country. A special emphasis will be put on laser-optical technologies, nanotechnologies and metallurgy.
The previous executive program on the Belarusian-Indian science and technology cooperation for 2003-2006 included seven joint projects. All of them were successfully implemented, Vladimir Matiushkov underlined.
