KABUL - India will offer 600 scholarships to Afghan students over the next five years in the fields of agriculture, civil service and forestry, the UN Development Program (UNDP) said Sunday.
An agreement between Afghanistan's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock and India's government will see the 600 scholarships granted to Afghans undertaking Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. courses in Indian Universities.

The scholarships are supported by the UNDP under its assistance to Afghanistan in the National Institution Building Project (NIBP), according to a statement on the UNDP website.

In other news, the NIBP is helping Afghanistan's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled the put together a national policy on child labor, the statement added.

According to the UNDP website, the main focus of the NIBP is to build the professional capacity of leading Afghan government ministries and agencies at both the national and sub-national level.

An NIBP board meeting to be held in Kabul on Monday is expected to be attended by senior government officials and representatives from the embassies of India, Japan, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Kazakhstan, Italy and Australia. (Tolo News)