Naidu calls for India-Vietnam collaboration in broadcasting

The collaboration between India and Vietnam in films, broadcasting and information dissemination will strengthen the bilateral relations between the countries, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said today.
"Cooperation in the field of institutional capacity building in social media and student exchange programs between premier institutes (dealing with journalism and films) of both the countries would bring the nations close," he said.
The Information and Broadcasting Minister was speaking at a meeting with the delegation led by Vietnam Minister of Information and Communications, Truong Minh Tuan here.
The year 2017 marks the 45th anniversary of the diplomatic relation and 10 years of strategic partnership between the two countries.

Naidu also extended the support of his Ministry to promote exchange programs between public broadcasters of the two countries, besides content creation, screening and distribution of films.
Meanwhile, Truong Minh Tuan gave an overview of the media scenario in his country at the meeting and expressed hope that the national broadcasters of both the nations would work closely in the field of real-time information gathering and dissemination.