November 14: Yangon: India will provide more educational aid for Myanmar public servants in terms of scholarship to help develop the country’s human resources, a local news journal reported Sunday.

Under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Scheme, 140 scholarships would be offered by India to Myanmar during the current fiscal year ending next March, an increase of 40 from two years ago, the Myanmar Times quoted Indian Embassy sources as saying.

The scholarships provide training in agriculture, rural development, finance and diplomacy and foreign policy, they said.

Such scholarships have been available to Myanmar public servants since eight years ago.

The scholarships include those provided under the Colombo Plan, a regional organization aimed at increasing economic and social cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the sources.

In most recent years, economic and technological cooperative ties between the two countries have grown. Recently, India extended to Myanmar a line of credit of 7 million US dollars for telecom projects and a grant of 3 million dollars for implementation of information and communication technology projects, the newspaper said.