India and Malaysia have signed seven agreements on Saturday, in the following areas of civil aviation and human resources development. The signing of agreements was followed by delegation-level two-sided discussion headed by Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Najib Razak.
In order to boost air services between the two countries, an agreement was signed by Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs Minister) and Malaysian Minister of Transport Sri Liow Tiong Lai.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the development of an urea and ammonia manufacturing plant in Malaysia and off take of existing surplus urea from Malaysia to India.
It envisage the Malaysian consortium of Isomeric Holding and Edra Power Holdings to put up a 2.5 MT/annum urea and ammonia manufacturing plant in Malacca, Malaysia, for dedicated consumption by India and off take to India of the existing surplus urea from Malaysia as per India’s requirement.
MoU (cooperation in the field of sports) -exchange of sportspersons, instructors, information on sports regime and training curricula.
The third MoU was signed between Malaysian Human Resource Fund and the Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDII), Ahmedabad, EDII will carry out training and other capacity building programmes.
An MoU was signed between the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) to mutually recognize each other’s educational qualifications.
The fifth MoU which was signed between the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), India is based on collaboration in technology development in the field of palm oil.
A sixth MoU was signed between MIGHT Technology Malaysia and Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board on implementation of a fourth generation technology park in Andhra Pradesh.