This follows bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Jaipur on Thursday, the place the 2 mentioned a number of points starting from defence, house, training, well being, mobility, and financial cooperation to the state of affairs in Gaza and the Crimson Sea disaster.
Macron attended India’s seventy fifth Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi because the chief visitor.
Modi, Macron meet in Jaipur, take part in roadshow
Defence manufacturing
The choice on adopting a defence manufacturing roadmap comes after India shared a blueprint of defence industrial co-operation in October 2023 in order that each nations might flag core areas, together with land warfare methods and gear, robotics, autonomous platforms, and cyber, for working collectively. businessline solely reported this on November 15.
“The roadmap will contain figuring out areas for partnership within the defence industrial sector that prioritise co-designing, co-development, and co-production, and in addition constructing the defence provide chains between the 2 nations in order that they can’t solely fulfil the defence wants of India and France but additionally be a helpful contributor to the safety partnership with different nations who is perhaps in use of comparable merchandise,” Kwatra mentioned.
It is going to embrace each house and air know-how; maritime know-how, together with underwater area consciousness; gear and methods associated to land warfare; and in addition robotics, AI, and autonomous automobiles and platforms, he added.
Key pacts
The International Secretary additionally introduced different key pacts, together with an industrial partnership between Tata and Airbus helicopters for the manufacturing of H125 helicopters with a big indigenous and localization part, an settlement on a defence house partnership, and an MoU between New House India Restricted (NSIL) and Arianespace on satellite tv for pc launches.
The Ultimate Meeting Line (FAL) for H125 single-engine helicopters will likely be arrange in Vadodara, Gujarat. That is the second main deal between the 2 aerospace gamers after the ₹21,000 crore contract signed in 2021 for supplying 56 C-295 transport plane for the Indian Air Pressure.
Modi and Macron additionally mentioned the state of affairs in Ukraine, Gaza, and the Crimson Sea disaster.
“On the subject of developments within the Crimson Sea, the potential disruptions and the precise issues taking place within the maritime area there which are inflicting disruption to industrial transport is a matter of great concern, and each leaders centered on it,” Kwatra mentioned.
The International Secretary mentioned that agreements had been reached on mobility for younger professionals and confirmed {that a} five-year Schengen visa provision for Indian college students finishing their Masters in France will likely be activated.
Different agreements signed included ones between the Division of Science and Expertise and French counterpart establishments. There can be collaborations on analysis in clear vitality, decarbonised hydrogen, utilized arithmetic, digital know-how, and precision agriculture.
There have been additionally pacts on healthcare co-operation, training, coaching, and analysis that would come with the house of digital well being and using synthetic intelligence within the healthcare sector.
“It’s been agreed that the yr 2026 will likely be celebrated because the India-France yr of innovation,” Kwatra mentioned.
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