India signs Host Country Agreement with International Telecommunication Union for establishment of Area Office & Innovation Centre at New Delhi

India signs Host Country Agreement with International Telecommunication Union for establishment of Area Office & Innovation Centre at New Delhi

• The Government of India has signed the Host Country Agreement (HCA) with International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for the establishment of an Area Office & Innovation Centre of ITU in New Delhi on March 03, 2022.
• The Host Country Agreement provides the legal and financial framework for establishment and operations of the Area Office.
• The Area Office and Innovation Centre of ITU at New Delhi will serve South Asian  countries comprising of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and India.  
• The agreement was signed between Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister of Communications and H.E. Houlin Zhao, Secretary General of ITU, in a virtual ceremony during the World Telecommunications Standardisation Assembly-20 (WTSA-20) being held in Geneva, Switzerland.
• ITU is the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs). ITU currently has a membership of 193 countries. Headquarter – Geneva, Switzerland.

Points to remember:

1. India has inked agreement with ITU to set up Area Office and Innovation Centre of ITU in which city of India?
2. Headquarter of ITU?
3. Union Minister of Communication

Source: PIB