India-Japan JV to build Asia Africa Growth Corridor
India and Japan had announced the construction of an Asia Africa Growth Corridor with four major strands, including capacity building and creating quality infrastructure and institutional connectivity, human resource development in Africa, people-to-people partnership, and development and cooperation projects. India is joining hands with Japan and the UAE to implement two projects in Africa as it seeks to extend its footprint on the continent where strategic rival China has made deep inroads. The partners also envisaged developing capacities to sustain infrastructure, greenfield projects, power grids, agriculture and agro-processing, besides health and pharmaceuticals. Official sources said that India and Japan will also set up a cancer hospital in Kenya, which would be built as part of the AAGC initiative, but described it as a trilateral cooperation venture with Japan, and similarly with the UAE in the case of the ICT centre in Ethiopia. Analysts say that India is seeking partnerships with third countries in Africa given its resource constraints, though New Delhi has undertaken many projects like the ambitious Pan African e-network project on tele-education and tele-medicine, that provides integrated satellite, fibre optics and a wireless network between educational and medical institutes in Africa and India. Former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal said that India's expertise in skilling manpower, if backed by financial resources and technical expertise from countries like Japan and the UAE, could create quality projects in Africa.
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18 April 2019
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