India, UK to sign MoU on water cycle

H S Rao

London, Feb 11 (PTI) India and Britain will soon sign
a MoU on data on changing water cycle, as part of bilateral
efforts to promote scientific exchanges between them.

Britain's Minister for Business Innovation and Skills
Pat McFadden who is embarking on a visit to India said,
he planned to sign a MoU later this week in New Delhi on "Data
on Changing Water Cycle" which is an issue of concern in
different ways to both countries.
"India, of course, depends on monsoon for much of its
agriculture and here in Britain too we have water problems -
floods in the recent years and there is real common scientific
interest in understanding data on changing water cycle," he
told PTI in an interview, ahead of his week long visit.
McFadden, had played a significant role as a speech
writer and policy adviser to the Labour leader John Smith and
as Political Secretary to former Prime Minister Tony Blair
before he joined the Gordon Brown Cabinet in 2007.
McFadden who leaves for Delhi tomorrow, said the focus
during his visit would be on Science and Education where there
was great potential for joint collaboration.
He said he would take part in a Joint UK-India Science
Council with India's Science and Technology Minister
Prithviraj Chavan in New Delhi on Saturday.
At the end of the conference a Joint Statement would
be issued, he said. The same day he would visit the University
of Delhi. PTI HSR
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