MoUs with Benin, Guinea on e-network

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd has entered into a strategic alliance with Benin and Guinea as part of a larger pan-African e-network project on education and medicine. An MoU to this effect was signed by President Ram Nath Kovind during the first state visit from India to Benin, the Gambia and Guinea in July.

The MoU is to set up the e-VBAB Network as part of a larger pan African enetwork project on education and medicine. The e-VBAB is e-vidyabharti and e-arogyabharti network. Under these projects, TCIL will, initially, extend free teleeducation courses to 15,000 students and tele-medicine courses to 5,000 doctors and paramedics in Africa, which may be extended on a more self-sustainable model, after looking at its success. The PAN African e-network project has been now renamed as e-VBAB Network Project.

TCIL’s Kamendra Kumar signed the agreements with his counterparts. e-VBAB, the flagship project of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), is a step towards capacity building in the field of university education and medical science. It provides an opportunity for local employment and opens the door for access to education and medical expertise from India to African students, doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. The MEA has initially proposed launching a pilot project with 14 African countries; Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Uganda, South Sudan, Liberia, Benin, Republic of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Sudan.

connecting Dhubri in Assam on the north bank and Phulbari in Meghalaya on the south bank. The bridge falls under the Northeast Road Network Connectivity Improvement Project that Japan has identified for collaboration.