Israeli Embassy in India to have ‘Water Attache’ from Jan 2021
The Embassy of Israel in India will have a separate ‘Water Attache’ from January 2021 to help share the country’s best practices and technologies for advancements in India’s water management and agriculture sectors.
The ‘Water Attache’ will join the ‘Agriculture Attache’, who has been in India for several years now. Together, the two will go to the centres of excellence for agriculture set up as part of Indo-Israel collaboration and bring to India technology and systems in water management and agriculture, said Israeli Ambassador to India Ron Malka recently.
The significant development reflects the growing partnership between the two countries that has deepened and expanded to several sectors and several areas beyond defence and security.
As many as 29 such centres of excellence have already been established across India and nearly 1.5 lakh farmers have been trained at these centres in just one year, Malka said.
“India and Israel have a strategic partnership in water management. This is one of the main pillars, we are collaborating on because we understand and realise that water is one of the biggest challenges in India post-COVID,” Malka was quoted as saying in news reports.
Israel is the perfect match to meet that challenge. “We have so much to do together in this field. We just signed a flagship project on water in UP. We are advancing rapidly on this front,” he said.
“We are working very closely on water-related matters with both the federal government and the states. We congratulate India on reforms in the water sector and concentrating all the authority in the Jal Shakti Ministry,” he said.
“Besides, the place that we have now reached is much beyond any particular individual or any party or any political developments because now our relationship is people to people,” he said.
