Background Information

The Inter Governmental Agreement for cooperation in the field of Science & Technology with Tajikistan was concluded in December 1995. The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology of India and the Tajik Academy of Sciences (TAS), Republic of Tajikistan are the nodal agencies in India and Tajikistan respectively.

A Programme of Cooperation (POC) in S&T for the period of 2006-08 was concluded in August 2007. The Indo-Tajik POC in Science and Technology facilitates bilateral cooperation between the scientific communities of the two countries by way of Joint Research Projects, Exchange Visits under Joint Projects, Bilateral workshops, seminars, Exploratory visits of scientists and Training of scientists and researchers.

Areas of Cooperation:

Support is available to the following indicative scientific areas:

• Mathematics;
• Astronomy;
• Metal Sciences and New Materials;
• Geophysical Instrumentation, Seismology and Earthquake Engineering including its forecasting;
• Alternate Renewable Energy Sources, including Solar Energy;
• Information Technologies;
• Geology;
• Glaciology;
• Mathematical modeling of climate and climate changes;
• Lasers and plasma in Medicine;
• Biotechnology;
• development of Traditional Medicines based on herbs and other food products;

Cooperation in other areas of Science & Technology can, however, be undertaken with mutual consultations between the two nodal agencies.

Calls for proposals on joint research are invited from time to time by the two Governments jointly. In response to such calls, the scientists from both the countries interested in identified subject areas may formulate joint proposals and submit the same to the respective focal points in the two countries. For organization of workshop / seminar, exploratory visit, the interested scientist may approach the respective focal point in the two countries.

Under the Programme, financial support is provided to Project Investigators by their respective governments. From Indian, it is expected that participating institutes themselves make provision for the use of equipment, manpower, consumables, etc. However in deserving cases, incremental costs may also be considered on recommendations of the Project Assessment/ Expert Committees. Financial support available for the exchange visit component is as follows:

The sending side would provide return international airfare up to the city of place of work in the host country and cover insurance for emergency illness and accident. The receiving side would arrange in-country travel of the visiting scientists from the capital city/city of arrival to the place of the visiting institute by appropriate means and provide local hospitality.