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In poll-bound Assam, MEA goes for Japanese push   Wed, Feb 10 2021 04:58:44 PM By Aarti Tikoo Singh New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS): At a time when Modi 2.0 has ticked all checkboxes in providing vaccine aid to India s neighbours, the Centre has ratcheted up a mega plan for a strategic partnership with Japan in poll-bound Assam. Ahead of the state Assembly elections, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will be taking a Japanese delegation headed by their Ambassador to India, Kenji Hiramatsu, to the northeastern state on February 14, a move seen as fillip to NDA s Look East policy. Official sources in MEA confirmed to IANS that Jaishankar and a Japanese delegation will physically review some of the Japanese-aided projects that are under construction in Assam. The Sarbananda Sonowal government in Assam has already acquired 2,000 bighas of land in Nagarbera for an upcoming Japanese Industrial Township.

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