HCM CITY — "I am half Indian, half Vietnamese," said Nguyen Minh Chau, director of the Southern Food Research Institute, as he waxed nostalgic about his five-and-a-half year stay in India, pursuing post-graduate and doctorate courses with scholarships from the Indian government.
Chau was among many recipients of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) scholarships who gathered at the General Sciences Library in HCM City last weekend to mark the ITEC Day 2010.
Chau said that many Vietnamese professionals trained in India were heading agricultural, horticultural and other scientific research institutes in the country.
Chief guest Dang Cong Luan, Director of the Department of Interior of the People's Committee of HCM City, said "the ITEC Programme is an earnest attempt by India to share the fruits of its socio-economic development and technological achievement with other developing countries, including Viet Nam."
"Thanks to the ITEC programme, many researchers, cadres, officials, students have been engrossed in scientific research and are applying the technical breakthroughs in production as well as in life, bringing high socio-economic efficiency," Luan said.
Abay Thakur, Indian consul-general, said that the most popular courses for the Vietnamese students going to India have been IT, English proficiency, financial management, agricultural practices (including soil management, farming systems and agronomy), environmental technology and biotechnology. — VNS
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