Barry O’Farrell, Premier of Australia’s most populous state New South Wales (NSW) expressed his happiness on meeting Gujarat’s Chief Minister and BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi.
In a tweet spreading joyous smile, O’Farrell described his interaction with Modi on Wednesday as ‘Great’
In his third visit to Gujarat, O’Farrell is leading a state delegation of ten members to explore venues for enhance mutual co-operation in number of areas like infrastructure development, technology transfer and education.
NSW already enjoys a cooperative relationship with Gujarat and O’Farrell sees opportunity to take it further. This includes application of clean technology in number of cities in Gujarat, water management infrastructure at SIR,
In education and skill development sector areas being explored are technical education courses for skill development with Technical and further education NSW (TAFE), tie-up with Yoga University and Sports University, developing renewable energy sector like rooftop solar technology and dairy technology.
Along with other notable members from Business and government, Australian consul general Marc Pears accompanied O’Farrell.