New Delhi: The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal today said Education will act as a bridge between India and Australia. Education and Commerce, engaging with Technology, will empower us towards Action, he said.
“It has always been an important element of our partnership. In the post-Covid world, we must explore possibilities of hybrid programmes,” said Goyal, in his address during an Interaction with Students of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.
Terming the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (IndAus ECTA) as a “natural partnership”, Goyal said India is looking at tripling steel production capacity and energy efficiency.
“A lot of the good work that researchers come up with does not get that kind of scale, that kind of opportunity to operationalize,” said Goyal. “With that scale we can make medical care more affordable, with that scale we can make technology come to serve larger numbers of people, manufactured at scale, using the talent that we have in both countries, possibly the talent in Australia coming up with game changing research, the talent in India helping it to manufacture that at scale, use that at scale, serving large sections of society in the world and from there taking it to the rest of the world. And I do believe that such partnerships are important for the world” he added.
Inviting the University of NSW to expand its footprint in India, Goyal said the India-Australia partnership can truly transform the lives of our people.
Later addressing the Business Leaders Meeting, organised by Business Council of Australia, Goyal said business will be the framework on which all other engagements between the two sides will prosper.