Zanzibar [Tanzania], July 6 (ANI): Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar visited the Kiduthani challenge in Tanzania’s Zanzibar on Thursday, which shall be offering consuming water to 30,000 households within the metropolis.
Jaishankar is on a four-day official go to to Tanzania from July 5-8, the place he’s set to carry high-level talks and co-chair the tenth Joint Commission Meeting together with his counterpart, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated in a launch.
Drawing comparability with ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ in India, MEA Jaishankar stated that ‘Delivered by India’, is a actuality at this time throughout Africa.
“Visited the Kiduthani project that will provide drinking water to 30,000 households in Zanzibar. The six projects we are building will give drinking water access to a million Zanzibaris. The local enthusiasm for our efforts was palpable. Similar to Jal Jeevan Mission in India. ‘Delivered by India’, is a reality today across Africa. It is visibly improving the ease of living for so many,” Jaishankar stated on Twitter.
Jaishankar additionally visited the stone city in Zanzibar and went to the Arya Samaj and Shri Shiv Shakti temples.
“Visited the Stone Town in Zanzibar and experienced its distinctive Gujarat connection. Blessed to visit the Arya Samaj and Shri Shiv Shakti mandirs there. This time-tested confluence of Africa and India is emerging as a statement of our contemporary partnership,” Jaishankar stated in a tweet.
Earlier within the day, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for establishing of campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar- Tanzania was signed on Thursday between the Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt of India, IIT Madras and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) Zanzibar- Tanzania, within the presence of S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India and Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi, President of Zanzibar.
This is the primary ever IIT campus to be arrange outdoors India. It is reflective of the longstanding friendship between India and Tanzania and a reminder of the main target India locations on constructing people-to-people ties throughout Africa and the Global South, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated in a launch.
On Wednesday, MEA Jaishankar met with Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi on Wednesday and in addition witnessed the signing of the settlement on establishing of IIT Madras campus in Zanzibar.
India and Tanzania share shut and pleasant relations. In strengthening the schooling ties between the 2 international locations, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will open its first-ever abroad campus in Tanzania’s Zanzibar in October 2023 with a batch of fifty undergraduate college students and 20 grasp’s college students, The Citizen reported.
The new IIT campus shall be arrange in Zanzibar underneath the identify IIT Madras at Zanzibar. Zanzibar shall be one in every of three campuses outdoors of India, with the others positioned in Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur.
During the go to, Jaishankar additionally known as on the highest management of the East African nation and in addition attended a reception onboard Indian Naval Ship Trishul.
India and Tanzania additionally noticed the second version of the Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) assembly between the 2 international locations, which was held in Arusha on June 28 and 29, earlier this yr. (ANI)