India-Japan for bilateral collaboration in infra
New
Delhi,
Jan
4:
India
and
Japan
here
today
called
for
increasing
bilateral
collaboration
in
infrastructure
sector,
including
the
dedicated
freight
corridor
project
and
Delhi
Mumbai
industrial
corridor
project.
Described as mother of all infrastructure projects in India, the 90-100 billion dollar Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor is slated for development along the 1483-km-long dedicated freight corridor between the two primary cities of the country. Expressing satisfaction over the steadily progressing relations between the two countries, Finance Minister P Chidambaram during a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Fukushiro Nukaga expressed the hope their partnership would further deepen.
The visits of the Indian Prime Minister to Japan in 2006 and of the Japanese Prime Minister to India in 2007 have further strengthened the India-Japan global partnership.
They also discussed the need to increase collaboration in the financial sector, a Finance Ministry statement said.
UNI