The Union Cabinet yesterday approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Mauritius for cooperation in the field of rural development. The MoU will help to establish a framework for cooperation between the National Development Unit, Prime Minister's Office of Mauritius and the Ministry of Rural Development of India, an official press release said. It said the MoU
would encourage cooperation in the field of rural development and capacity building on the basis of equality and mutual benefit between both countries.
Under the MoU, a Joint Committee on Cooperation on Rural Development will be established which will meet alternatively in both countries on mutually agreed dates. The MoU will come into effect from the date of its signature.
The release said an institutional arrangement for bilateral cooperation between India and Mauritius in the field of rural development and poverty alleviation was under consideration for some time.
Both countries have a large segment of their population living in rural areas and are pre-dominantly dependent on agriculture and its allied activities for their livelihoods.
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