President Truong Tan Sang, accompanied by his wife and entourage, arrived in Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state in India on October 11 as part of his official visit to the country at the invitation of Indian President Pratibha Devising Patil.
At the reception for President Sang, the Governor of Karnataka, Hansraj Bhardwaj, briefed him of the major developments in Bangalore, which is India’s third biggest city with a total population of 6.1 million. Bangalore, the software technology centre known as the first “Silicon Valley” in Asia and India, earns US$1.2 billion from exporting software technology products every year.

It is also considered a top university city in India with more than 120 international standard universities.

Karnataka’s economic growth reached 7.2 percent in the past fiscal year.

 Governor Bhardwai said about 500 Vietnamese students are currently studying in various fields in Bangalore, especially software technology. The city has also welcomed many Vietnamese economic delegations keen to study the area and expand cooperation in trade and investment.

India’s major companies are ready to satisfy Vietnam’s needs for developing high-tech sectors, he stressed.
State President Sang said Vietnam encourages Bangalore-based companies to invest in building an Indian high-tech zone in Vietnam, which would be a symbol of the Vietnam-India traditional friendship and strategic partnership.

Mr Sang also asked the Karnataka administration to create more favourable conditions for Vietnamese students in Bangalore in order to increase the quality of Vietnam’s software technology human sources.

The Vietnamese State leader reaffirmed Vietnam’s unswerving policy of consolidating the ties of time-honoured friendship and strategic partnership with India, including people-to-people exchanges for closer cooperation between localities in the two countries.

President Sang and his delegation also visited the Infosys group the same day.

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