New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- The Union Cabinet approved the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Uzbekistan on Wednesday for cooperation in the field of Solar Energy.

The main area of work under is to identify research/demonstration/pilot projects between the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, India and the International Solar Energy Institute (ISEI), Uzbekistan.

The areas include manufacturing of solar photovoltaic, storage technologies and overall technology transfer in the whole gamut of solar energy.

Based on mutual agreement, both parties would work for implementation and deployment of pilot project in International Solar Alliance (ISA) member countries.

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