Education & climate act as confidence-building measures

NEW DELHI: Education and climate change issues have emerged as confidence-building measures amid the ongoing Sino-Indian standoff along Nathu La Pass in Sikkim, with human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar meeting his counterpart as well as China’s special envoy on climate change issues in Beijing on Wednesday.

Speaking at the BRICS education ministers’ meet in Beijing, Javadekar said, “Education is a universal, apolitical agenda. It’s not negotiation, but cooperation all the way. So, increased cooperation in education is the need of the hour.” He expressed appreciation for the creation of institutional mechanism in the form of BRICS Network University and BRICS Think Tank Council.