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Trinidad and To­ba­go and In­dia have for­malised 15 new agree­ments span­ning health, ed­u­ca­tion, agri­cul­ture, dig­i­tal ser­vices, trade, and cul­ture.

One of the stand­out agree­ments is the Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing on Quick Im­pact Projects (QIPs). “Through this MOU, the gov­ern­ment of In­dia will pro­vide grant fund­ing for the im­ple­men­ta­tion of short ges­ta­tion QIPs which will not ex­ceed US$50,000 for each project. A max­i­mum of five projects will be of­fered in each fi­nan­cial year,” a joint state­ment con­firmed yes­ter­day.

In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di al­so an­nounced a do­na­tion of 2,000 lap­tops to sup­port the Gov­ern­ment’s dig­i­tal ed­u­ca­tion ini­tia­tive, de­scrib­ing it as a re­sponse to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s “am­bi­tious vi­sion of digi­tis­ing ed­u­ca­tion.”