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Maoist-hit India can
benefit from Israel: Gadkari
Israel, Dec 15 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
President Nitin Gadkari has underscored the urgent need for
India and Israel to enhance cooperation in combating the
menace of terrorism and further promoting joint ventures in
the field of agriculture, water management, irrigation, dairy
products and other agro-based industries.
Gadkari, who is on a six-day goodwill visit to Israel along
with a BJP delegation, said the Indian states facing the
Maoist and Naxal violence could benefit from the Israeli
homeland security systems which have very advanced technology
and sophisticated equipment.
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Speaking after the presentations given by the
homeland security services organizations, Gadkari said he has
advised these homeland security services to organize special
presentations in India for the states of Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand and Bihar which are facing the challenge of Maoist
and Naxal violence.
The BJP president is accompanied by Vasundhra Raje Scindia,
former Rajasthan Chief Minister and now a Party General
Secretary, Ramlal, Party General Secretary in charge of
organization, O.P. Dhankar, Satpal Malik, Manvendra Singh and
Subhash Deshmukh (all former members of parliament) and Vijay
Jolly, in charge of BJP foreign Cell.
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Speaking at a reception hosted in his honour by the
Israel-India Friendship Association and the Marathi
Jewish Community in Israel, Gadkari said his goodwill
visit was aimed at promoting political level dialogue as
well as people to contact between the two countries.
He said the friendly relations between India and Israel
have been making steady progress and the two countries
have expanded the areas of mutual cooperation in various
fields including the high technology.
During the last two days, the BJP president has visited
some joint venture research and development projects in
homeland security, agriculture, water management and
irrigation.
Several delegations of Israeli trade and industry have
also called on Gadkari evincing keen interest in joint
ventures in the field of agro-based industries, water
management, dairy products and irrigation facilities in
the BJP ruled states.
Gadkari is scheduled to have meetings with political
leadership of Israel and an interaction with the
Israel-India Parliamentary Friendship League tomorrow.
India and Israel have a Joint Working Group on
counter-terrorism that meets periodically to review the
situation in the two regions and to share strategies to
counter-terrorist moves.
The two countries are also at an advance stage of
concluding a formal free trade agreement for a two way
arrangement that would give Indian companies access to
the Israeli high technology sector and Israel access to
Indian domestic market.
--IBN
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