Ansari leaves for Myanmar visit, 3 MoUs to be signed

Aiming to bolster India's economic, energy and security interests with Myanmar, Vice President Hamid Ansari left in New Delhi on a four-day visit to that country during which three agreements are to be signed.

Aiming to bolster India's economic, energy and security interests with Myanmar, Vice President Hamid Ansari left in New Delhi on Thursday on a four-day visit to that country during which three agreements are to be signed including one on setting up a truck manufacturing unit.

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The two countries will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for setting up an industrial training centre in Myanmar while another accord will be entered into by Tata Motors and Myanmar government for setting up a truck manufacturing unit in that country for which India has given a USD 20 million credit line.

Another MoU will be signed on establishment of a Centre for English Language Training in Myanmar to equip students, civil servants, businessmen and professionals with language skills.

The idea of the Centre, to be set up with India-ASEAN Cooperation Fund, was proposed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Indo-ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur in 2005.

In the telecom sector, an optic fibre link set up by TCIL between Mandalay and Kolkata would be inaugurated by Ansari.