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Singapore PM to push for bigger Indian role in Asean
NEW DELHI: As the season of Asean-India diplomacy gets underway, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong arrives here on Tuesday on a state visit for the second time in less than a decade. PM Manmohan Singh had visited Singapore in October 2011.
Accompanied by education minister Heng See Keat and parliament speaker Michael Palmer, Lee and Singh will review a relationship that has almost no wrinkles in it. Singapore, as India's closest partner in southeast Asia, will be stepping up its engagement by getting into one of the country's core sectors -- education.
On the geopolitical canvas, Singapore will push India again to play a bigger role in Asean and the East Asia Summit. While there is a greater call for Indian engagement in EAS, New Delhi has traditionally been fairly tentative.
As all of Asia looks to hedge a rising China, there are more calls for India to step up its presence in the region. This will be conveyed to India, sources said. Foreign minister S M Krishna will be in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to attend the Asean-India ministerial meeting.
India will take Singapore's suggestion seriously and it plans to host a series of events to mark the 20th anniversary of India-Asean ties later this year.
India and Singapore will be signing an MoU between the Indian ministry of labour and their ministry of education to set up skills-based vocational training institutes. According to a study by Ficci, "India is expected to be home to a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022. About 12 million persons are expected to join the workforce every year". Currently, India can throw up only about 3 million skilled personnel. The demand therefore is huge, if India has to transform itself.
Sources said Singapore would make available world class skill-centred curriculum to be taught in technical education institutes. In the first phase, Singapore will even fund part of it. Later, this programme will be taken to other states.
In fact, having developed a high degree of comfort with the central government, Singapore is now venturing to extend its diplomacy to Indian states. It will offer its expertise in urban planning, water treatment and waste management to states.
India-Singapore comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) has been the first and in many ways the most effective such agreement. A second review of the CEPA is overdue, largely because the Indian commerce secretary was changed and the exercise is not yet completed. However, Singapore remains a hub for many international businesses who invest in the Indian market or who are interested in the Indian market.
Singapore PM to push for bigger Indian role in Asean - Times Of India
NEW DELHI: As the season of Asean-India diplomacy gets underway, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong arrives here on Tuesday on a state visit for the second time in less than a decade. PM Manmohan Singh had visited Singapore in October 2011.
Accompanied by education minister Heng See Keat and parliament speaker Michael Palmer, Lee and Singh will review a relationship that has almost no wrinkles in it. Singapore, as India's closest partner in southeast Asia, will be stepping up its engagement by getting into one of the country's core sectors -- education.
On the geopolitical canvas, Singapore will push India again to play a bigger role in Asean and the East Asia Summit. While there is a greater call for Indian engagement in EAS, New Delhi has traditionally been fairly tentative.
As all of Asia looks to hedge a rising China, there are more calls for India to step up its presence in the region. This will be conveyed to India, sources said. Foreign minister S M Krishna will be in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to attend the Asean-India ministerial meeting.
India will take Singapore's suggestion seriously and it plans to host a series of events to mark the 20th anniversary of India-Asean ties later this year.
India and Singapore will be signing an MoU between the Indian ministry of labour and their ministry of education to set up skills-based vocational training institutes. According to a study by Ficci, "India is expected to be home to a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022. About 12 million persons are expected to join the workforce every year". Currently, India can throw up only about 3 million skilled personnel. The demand therefore is huge, if India has to transform itself.
Sources said Singapore would make available world class skill-centred curriculum to be taught in technical education institutes. In the first phase, Singapore will even fund part of it. Later, this programme will be taken to other states.
In fact, having developed a high degree of comfort with the central government, Singapore is now venturing to extend its diplomacy to Indian states. It will offer its expertise in urban planning, water treatment and waste management to states.
India-Singapore comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) has been the first and in many ways the most effective such agreement. A second review of the CEPA is overdue, largely because the Indian commerce secretary was changed and the exercise is not yet completed. However, Singapore remains a hub for many international businesses who invest in the Indian market or who are interested in the Indian market.
Singapore PM to push for bigger Indian role in Asean - Times Of India
. Anyway it is common sense they will have a good relationship with china since around 70% of the population is chinese. 
