United Kingdom minister arrived in India to launch regional alliances

New Delh, May 11 Matthew Hancock, the UK Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has arrived in New Delhi for a three-day visit to participate in UK-India Tech Partnership to launch regional alliances that is relied upon to make ready for a heap of new arrangements bringing jobs and investment to both the countries.

The summit shall focus on virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

Hancock is expected to confirm the partnership with Midlands Engine with Maharashtra with an attention on future mobility including low outflow and independent vehicles, battery storage and vehicle light weighting.

Further, Northern Powerhouse will be linked to Karnataka with an attention on information, enlarged and virtual reality, propelled materials and artificial intelligence (AI).

Hancock also wished to connect other regions of India and the United Kingdom.

This comes after the current visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to London where the two sides had reported an partnership between the two nations in the field of technology, institutions, and businesses and develop a new UK-India Tech Hub in Delhi.

Further, development of another UK-India Tech Hub in Delhi will also be talked about amid the visit.

In Delhi, Hancock will address the Indian tech industry body NASSCOM, meet driving Indian firms including Paytm, Quatrro and DevITPL, and affirm another UK-India Tech Thought Leadership Summit to be held in India later this year.

He will also meet with the UK and Indian financial specialists to establish the frameworks for new deals in areas such as fintech, cyber security, health-tech and smart cities and launch the extended Tech Rocketship awards, which enables Indian tech to new companies set up their businesses in the UK, boosting crisp development in Britain.

In Mumbai, he will champion the UK's counterfeit consciousness and fintech enterprises at an occasion facilitated by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Indian business leaders. This will expand on recent agreements for the UK's money related administrations enterprises to work nearer together and build stronger economic links between London and Mumbai.

"The UK and India are worldwide leaders in tech and by deepening our ties we can open up huge opportunities for business and natives in the two countries. Our new UK-India Tech Partnership won't just establish the frameworks for new speculation, development and occupations, however it will likewise help coordinated effort on the innovations without bounds that will enhance and alter our lives," Hancock said.

He will be the first cabinet minister to visit the nation following Prime Minister Modi's visit to the UK for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) a month ago, where the nations declared one billion pounds worth of new plug arrangements and in excess of 5,500 tech employments.

Hancock will also promote the 2019 Cricket World Cup and the ECB's new South Asia Strategy and will consent to work intimately with India to handle coordinate settling and hostile to doping in wear.

He will visit the National Museum's 'India in the World' Exhibition created in organization with the British Museum, and support recently propelled BBC World Service dialect administrations at the World Service Delhi Bureau.