Indonesian water engineers to study in India

JAKARTA (JP): Nineteen engineers of the Ministry of Public Works, are scheduled to leave today for India to study for masters degrees in the field of water resources development and water use management.

Their studies, at the University of Roorkee, are financed by a scholarship program from the government of India.

The 19 engineers, all staff of the Directorate General of Water Resources Development, bade their farewell on Tuesday during a party attended by Assistant of the Director General Mohammad Hardjono and First Secretary of the Indian Embassy B. Ghosh.

A total of 550 Indonesians have studied under the scholarship programs from the Indian government since 1972, many of them studying at the University of Roorkee which specializes in water resources management and other fields such as standardization, computer hardware and software, insurance and financial management, banking and finance and rural development.

The scholarship program which comes under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation was first launched in 1964 as a move to exchange technical knowledge among developing countries. (pwn)