Seoul (S.Korea), July 26 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil paid floral tribute at the statue of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore here on Monday in remembrance of his 150th birth anniversary.
Patil along with other members of her delegation offered flowers before the statue.
On the same day, India inked a civil nuclear cooperation deal with South Korea.
The signing of the agreement paves the way for the Korean companies to participate in atomic power plant projects in India.
To meet the rising energy need, India will have to rely on nuclear power generating plants and it aims to build 40 such plants in the next 20 years
The accord was signed by Srikumar Banerjee, a top bureaucrat in the Department of Atomic Energy and Kim Sung Hwan, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, after Patil met with her South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-Bak.
Besides this, both the countries also signed a Memorandum of Understanding on media relations and administrative arrangements to provide social security to people working in India and Korea.
Seoul generates around 35 percent of its electricity needs from 20 nuclear plants and is keen to export its technology to a growing economy like New Delhi.
South Korea has become the ninth country to sign civil nuclear agreement with India after the U.S., France, Russia, Canada, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Namibia.
The Indian President is on a week-long visit of Korea and Mongolia. (ANI)
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