India, Japan ink pact for power generation, tourism promotion

India and Japan today inked as many as eight agreements on areas like promotion of tourism, enhancing energy efficiency in telecom towers and power generation in the country.
The pacts were signed during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will be the chief guest for the Republic Day Parade tomorrow.
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed two pacts with NTPC. Under the agreements, JBIC would provide "soft loan" for NTPS' Kudgi Power Plant and "loan" for NTPC's Auraiya Power Plant.
A Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Bureau of Indian Standards and Japanese Industrial Standards Committee to harmonise standards between the two countries.

Aiming at enhancing energy efficiency in telecom towers, an MoU was inked between New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation Japan and Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on a model project for energy management systems in telecom towers in India.
To help implement bilateral science and technology exchanges, an implementing arrangement was inked between the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology of Japan and the Department of Science & Technology of India.
Both the sides also exchanges notes on Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) loan for Uttarakhand Forest Resource Management Project. The project is financed by Japanese Official Development Assistance.

Further, exchange of notes took place between the two sides for improvement of the Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children in Chennai.