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New Delhi [India], July 29: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has signed the Grant Agreement with the Government of India to fund the third cohort of ‘The Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS)’, reaffirming Japan’s long-term funding within the officers who will form India’s coverage panorama within the a long time forward. The settlement, valued at roughly INR 14 crores (JPY 250 million), will sponsor 9 Indian authorities officers to undertake absolutely funded two-year grasp’s program at a few of Japan’s most prestigious universities.
First launched in India in 2024, the JDS has shortly develop into a signature strand of the India-Japan partnership. The scholarship identifies serving officers working in domains central to India’s improvement agenda and locations them in graduate program tailor-made to public coverage, engineering, and worldwide cooperation. Overall, 9 officers are chosen every year over the four-year span of the initiative – a deliberate design that builds, batch by batch, a rising group of Japan-trained directors inside the Indian authorities.
Post-completion, the officers return to their posts geared up not solely with superior educational coaching however with firsthand perception into Japanese governance, establishments, and trade. This experience will be channeled immediately into coverage reform, flagship improvement initiatives, and the increasing portfolio of India-Japan joint initiatives. In this fashion, every cohort strengthens each India’s administrative capability and the working relationship between the 2 governments.
The capability constructing program is now getting into a section of seen momentum. The inaugural batch, which arrived in Japan in mid-2025, is halfway by way of its research, and the second batch takes up admissions this yr. Applications for the third cohort will open in mid-2026, with chosen students starting their program in mid-2027.
Host establishments embody:
* Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
* Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
* Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
* Graduate School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University
* Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University
Mr. TAKEUCHI Takuro, Chief Representative, JICA India, stated: ‘When the Prime Ministers of India and Japan spoke of bolstering India-Japan people-to-people trade moreover, that is precisely the type of trade they’d in thoughts. It has been rewarding to look at our first JDS students settle into campuses throughout Japan, and I’m assured this third batch will carry that momentum ahead. To India’s brightest
younger officers, my message is straightforward: this scholarship is your gateway to Japan, and your coaching floor for constructing a Viksit Bharat. I encourage you to use.’
The Grant Agreement was signed by Mr. Baldeo Purushartha, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Government of India, and Mr. TAKEUCHI Takuro, Chief Representative, JICA India, in New Delhi.
With human capital now firmly established as a pillar of the bilateral relationship, the JDS stands as a working instance of how India and Japan are changing shared imaginative and prescient into shared functionality.
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