Myanmar-Japan signs agreement on Human Resource Development Scholarship

Myanmar-Japan signs agreement on Human Resource Development Scholarship
Published 9 July 2020

YANGON- An agreement was signed between Myanmar and Japan on July 6th for the Human Resource Development Scholarship Program, according to the announcement of the Japan Embassy in Myanmar.

On behalf of the Myanmar government, Bharat Singh, Deputy Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations and Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Maruyama Ichiro signed and exchanged the agreement.

The Japanese government will be providing cash assistance of Yen 627 billion for human resource development in the education sector.

Moreover, the Japanese government will provide scholarships for post-graduate studies, 44 Master degree students and four Ph.D students, in the 2020-21 academic years.

From the beginning of Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship in Myanmar in 2001, totaling 545 Myanmar young and highly capable government officials and private sector participants had been dispatched to Japan under this program.

The Japanese Embassy also announced that the Japanese Ambassador and Bharat Singh, Deputy Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations also signed agreements on three projects in Nay Pyi Taw on July 2nd. The assistance of US$20.5 million was earmarked for upgrading of waterway indicators in Yangon River and then it would provide water distribution programs in Yangon and Mandalay Regions and upgrading of wireless devices.