India and Mongolia on 28 July 2011 signed three agreements which includes defence cooperation, media exchanges and cooperation between their planning commissions during the visit of Indian President Prtibha Patil to Mongolia. India also announced that it would extend a 20 million US dollars line of credit for setting up an India - Mongolia Joint Information Technology, Education and Outsourcing Centre in Ulaanbaatar. Besides, India will also upgrade and modernize the Rajiv Gandhi Art and Production School and the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology.
This is the first Indian Presidential visit after a gap of 23 years; the last was by President R. Venkataraman.
Mongolia is a land locked central Asian country. It is also described as land of the blue skies. India still awaits the women’s reservation bill while Mongolia has 25 percent reservation for women in its Parliament.
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