Hyderabad, July 29 -- The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) today signed a Record of Discussions (RoD) with the government of India for "the Project for Future Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) to Enhance Network Development with Scholarship of Japan (FRIENDSHIP) Phase 2", a technical cooperation project.

The purpose of the project, according to a press release, is to establish a sustainable platform for academic and industrial collaboration between India and Japan at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad IIT-H. JICA experts will be dispatched to the institute and several initiatives will be implemented for the same.

The project will include setting up a Japan Desk at the IIT-H, a stu...