India and El Salvador agree to strengthen trade, healthcare and capacity building

been robust with El Salvador. Over the years, India has been supportive to El Salvador, during COVID times; India supplied essential medicines and PPE kits. Similarly, earlier, India supplied medicines during the 1998 Hurricane Mitch and in August 2005.

India established an IT Centre and functioned for 2 years successfully with the assistance of the Government of India through NIIT. On the request of El Salvador, it was further extended by one year and after successful completion of the period, the IT Centre was handed over to Salvadoran authorities in June 2011.

Under India Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC), so far 208 Salvadorans have been trained in India under ITEC scholarships. Five Salvadorian diplomats have been trained at SSIFS under the professional course for foreign diplomats (PCFD) programme in 2005, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2022.

Similarly, as a part of ‘ITEC On Site’ programme, a four-member Indian Mining Expert delegation visited El Salvador from October 3-7, 2022.

During their visit, they visited different abandoned mining sites for further studies across El Salvador with the accompanying delegation from the Ministry of Economy of El Salvador.