India has signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with International Energy Agency
The MoU was signed by Mr. SanjivNandanSahai, Secretary (Power) from the Indian side and Dr.FatihBirol, IEA Executive Director from the IEA side.The contents of the Strategic partnership will be jointly decided by the IEA Members and India, including a phased increase in benefits and responsibilities for India as an IEA Strategic partner, and building on existing areas of work within Association and the Clean Energy Transitions Programme (CETP), such as Energy Security, Clean & Sustainable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Enhancing petroleum storage capacity in India, Expansion of gas based economy in India etc.The IEA Secretariat will be responsible fo the cooperative activities in India and for facilitating discussion between the IEA Members and India to make the Strategic Partnership.The Government of India endeavours to take all important steps to encourage and promote strategic and technical cooperation in the energy sector in the identified areas noted above, through the Framework Agreement.