Lok Sabha Question No. 3111 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-16
Subject: Indo-French Agreement
Ministry: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Shrirang Appa Barne, NAGENDRA KUMAR PRADHAN, DHARMENDRA YADAV, SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE, VINAYAK BHAURAO RAUT, RAHUL RAMESH SHEWALE, SHIVAJI ADHALRAO PATIL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3111 TO BE ANSWERED ON 16/03/2016

## INDO-FRENCH AGREEMENT

3111.  SHRI SHRIRANG APPA BARNE: SHRI NAGENDRA KUMAR PRADHAN: SHRI DHARMENDRA YADAV: DR. SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE: SHRI VINAYAK BHAURAO RAUT: SHRI RAHUL SHEWALE: SHRI ADHALRAO PATILSHIVAJIRAO:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY òãðìððÐð ¡ðøÜ ÑßðøÌðð÷ò±ð¨îó be pleased to state:

- (a) whether India and France has signed an agreement recently for the establishment of an Indo-French Joint Committee on Science and Technology Cooperation;
- (b) if so, the details and the salient features thereof;
- (c) whether the two countries will soon work to promote economic and social development through research, development and innovation and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the manner in which and the extent to which both the countries are likely to be benefited therefrom; and
- (e) the time by which the implementation work on the agreement is likely to be started?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES (SHRI.Y. S. CHOWDARY)

## òãðìððÐð ¡ðøÜ ÑßðøÌðð÷ò±ð¨îó ÙðüëððâðÚð Ùð÷ü Üð¸Úð Ùðüëðó +ÉÉè® ÑðöÆãðó òãðìððÐð ÙðüëððâðÚð Ùð÷ü Üð¸Úð Ùðüëðó (gÉÉÒ ´ÉÉ<Ç. AºÉ. SÉÉèvÉ®ÉÒ)

- (a) No Madam. However, India and France have signed an arrangement for establishment of an  Indo-French  Joint  Committee  on  Science  and  Technology  Cooperation  (JCSTC)  on  25 th January 2016 under the inter-Governmental Agreement between the two countries signed on the 18 th  July,1978 and in pursuance of joint declaration issued after the summit meeting between the President of the French Republic and the Prime Minister of India held on 11 th April 2015 in Paris. (b) & (c): Under the arrangement the two countries have committed to work together to identify, synergise and define priorities for Indo-French cooperation in science, technology and innovation aimed  to  achieve  economic  and  social  development  through  knowledge  creation,  research, development  and  innovation.  The  JCSTC  will  review  and  also  provide  recommendations  on operational modalities to facilitate Indo-French Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation.
- (d) The arrangement is to help facilitate advance common national goals and startegies in the fields  of  science,  technology  and  engineering  research  by  leveraging  national  systems  and resources for widening Indo-French science, technology and innovation cooperation. It will also encourage application of the scientific results of such cooperation to economic and social benefit;
- (e) The arrangements provides for meeting of the JCSTC once in every two years, alternately in India and France or through other appropriate communication ways like videoconferencing as mutually decided by the two sides.
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