Mauritius' Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth (L) shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi prior to a meeting and an agreement signing in New Delhi on May 27, 2017.
Jugnauth is on three day state visit to India. / AFP PHOTO / PRAKASH SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images) India-Mauritius relations are based on an improvement organization, concurring Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“India and Mauritius are bound by history, ancestry, culture, language; and the shared waters of the Indian Ocean,” Modi remarked at a virtual event. Our strong development collaboration has also been a crucial component of our tight ties today. India-Mauritius relations are based on an improvement organization, concurring Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Prime Serve Narendra Modi and Mauritius’ Prime Serve Pravind Kumar Jugnauth mutually introduced; different improvement ventures in Mauritius on Thursday, saying that Mauritius is “necessarily” to India’s approach to the Indian; Sea which the development partnership could be a key column of the two countries’ near ties. “India and Mauritius are also bound by history, parentage, culture; dialect, and the shared waters of the Indian Sea,” Modi commented at a virtual event. Our solid advancement collaboration has also been a significant component of our tight ties nowadays.”
“Mauritius is a good illustration of India’s approach to development collaboration; which is based on our partners’ needs and objectives while respecting their sovereignty;” Modi added. He emphasized numerous facets of the partnership; noting that “Mauritius was one of the first countries it was also allow to supply Covid vaccines; to” through India’s Vaccine Maitri program.
“Mauritius is also critical to our Indian Ocean strategy,” Modi said, adding that he is please; that “bilateral collaboration, notably in marine security, has transformed this vision into action.”
“Our shared commitment to enhance the lives of our people,” he remarked of the Thursday gathering.
They dedicated the Social Housing Project; and also lay the foundations for a Civil Service College and an 8 Megawatt Solar PV Farm project; which, according to Modi, “would help Mauritius address the climate issues it faces as an island country.”
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In May 2016, India offered Mauritius a US$ 353 million Special Economic Package for five important projects; the Social Housing Project being the last to be complete.
The solar project will create around 14 GWh of green energy per year; enough to power approximately 10,000 homes and also avoid approximately 13,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year.
He hoped that India and Mauritius might “set a shining example of such collaboration in solar energy” by working together.
A US$ 190 million line of credit are extend to Mauritius for the Metro Express and other infrastructure projects; as well as a Memorandum of Understanding on the Implementation of Small Development Projects. “It will provide high-impact projects at the community level across Mauritius,” Modi stated of the latter. “India would always stand with Mauritius in its development journey,” he stated emphatically.
Jugnauth “thanked India for wide-ranging assistance, including financial assistance to Mauritius;” according to an Indian government statement, and also highlighted that relations between the two countries “had reached greater heights” under Modi.
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