India, Senegal to cooperate in information and broadcasting

India and Senegal Monday agreed to set up a joint working group in the information and broadcasting sector.

The Joint Working Group is to be set up in areas identified under the Executive Programme for Cultural Cooperation signed between the two countries.

This was decided during a meeting between Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari and Senegalese Culture Minister Abdul Aziz Mbaye here.

Both ministers agreed to draw up a time bound roadmap to take the cooperation in the information and broadcasting Sector forward, said a statement.

Tewari extended an invite to Mbaye to participate at the International Film Festival of India 2013 at Goa, which was readily accepted by the visiting minister.

Both also agreed to identify cooperation in areas relating to co-production in the film sector, sharing the experience by India in setting up the National Museum of Indian Cinema and the efforts being made by India to establish a single window clearance for film shooting in the country.