High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has highlighted the value of S&T cooperation between India and Bangladesh as an important dimension of their development partnership and a key catalyst in achieving larger national goals and finding solutions to common developmental challenges.
Pranay Verma made the statement while addressing a Joint Scientific Symposium as the Guest of Honour on Tuesday.
The subject of the Symposium was “Advanced Functional and Smart Materials for Sustainable Development”.
Minister of Science & Technology, Government of Bangladesh Architect Yeafesh Osman presided as the Chief Guest.
The Indian envoy stressed that as nations aspiring to join the ranks of developed economies of the world, there was great value and necessity for India and Bangladesh to promote closer engagement in science and technology.
The High Commissioner said that the collaboration can also bring unique perspectives as developing countries into scientific research and innovation, creating solutions that address societal challenges and generating ideas that meet developmental aspirations.
He urged greater participation of younger scientists from both countries in our S&T collaboration.
The two-day long Joint Symposium is being organized with the participation of scientists from India and Bangladesh in pursuance of that MOU.
A lesser-known area in the multifaceted relationship shared between India and Bangladesh, scientific and technological cooperation is an important pillar which encompasses promoting exchange of information, joint projects, utilization of respective major scientific facilities, twinning arrangements towards capacity development, in addition to advancing technology transfer and commercialization.
Joint research, as the one envisaged in this Symposium, is being conducted in diverse areas of common interest, including biological sciences, food science and technology, metallurgy, nanotechnology, leather product technologies, metrology, polymer sciences and drug discovery, among others.
