India grants $520,000 to Cambodia for ICT centers of excellence and talent development

PHNOM PENH (Cambodia) - Cambodia and India have signed a memorandum of understanding under which India will provide a grant of 27.5 million rupees (about $520,000) to set up "centers of excellence and talent development" in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, the office of the Council of  Ministers said.

Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, the minister in charge of the office who signed the MOU with Indian Ambassador Rajesh Sachdeva Wednesday, said the centers would focus on  human resource development and various types of training in information and communications technology including special vocational courses for teachers and students.

Sok An said  Cambodia and India had "strong mutual relations" in the field, noting that 870 Cambodians had been trained in India in various sciences and social sciences since 1981 and that India had helped to set up information technology kiosks in Kandal, Siem Reap and Kandal provinces as well as Phnom Penh.

India was the only non-communist country to recognize the People's Republic of Kampuchea established on January 15, 1979, eight days after Phnom Penh was liberated from the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. source

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