Sudanese Indian Friendship Association ( SIFA ) is made up of Sudanese people who graduated from Indian Universities. Whether it is from Madras, Pune, Nagpur, Baroda, Jabalpur or Hyderabad all the Sudanese Alumni from any of these Universities are members of SIFA. On Saturday 13th December an election was held to elect the new President of SIFA under the guidance of Council for International Peoples Friendship. There were 350 members present. Moulana Abdel Bashit Abdel Majid former Education and Tourism Minister of Sudan represented the Council and set the guidelines. He insisted that the members of SIFA should be comprised of 70% Sudanese and rest 30% by Indians.
Ambassador of India H.E. Sanjay Kumar Verma was present and
addressed the large gathering of Sudanese people who have been educated in
India. His Excellency shared that every year 250 scholarships were awarded to
Sudanese students to study in Indian Universities. Moreover 2500 students went
to India every year under self- financing programs. The Ambassador was pleased
to announce that Nuclear Medicine will be a new subject offered to Sudan. He
added that SIFA has played a positive role in increasing trade relations
between the two countries which was 1.3 billion US$ and is slated at 1.7billion
US$ at the end of this year’s financial year ending in March’15. While he said
that the Embassy of India represents the Government of India he also added that
the Mission was for the people both Indian and Sudanese.
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