GJ-SUMMIT-NETHERLANDS

The Netherlands said Thursday

it is signing 10 MoUs at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit

starting Friday with focus on sectors like smart city and

waste management, healthcare and agricultural cooperation.

The European country is being represented by a

delegation, which has more than 100 members, at the three-day

business conclave being held at Gandhinagar.

The delegation, led by Netherlands' Minister of

Finance for Taxation and Customs, Menno Snel, consists of

representatives from 45 companies, three trade associations

and government agencies.

"We met Chief Minister Mr (Vijay) Rupani...We have 45

companies, out of which 10 are signing MoUs. Our delegations

have been growing.

Lots of MoUs are on strategic cooperation," Snel told

reporters here Thursday.

Out of 10 MoUs, five were signed Thursday and the rest

will be inked during the summit, he said.

The MoUs deal with mobility management, waste-to-

energy conversion, delivery system in diagnostics, saline

farming, and protected cultivation of horticultural crops.

A Dutch company, Pal-V, which makes flying cars, is

also participating in the summit.

Pal-V plans to deliver its first vehicles, which will

have seating capacity for two persons, to customers in Europe

by 2019 or early 2020.

"We think India has a good opportunity for our client

base...we are planning discussions about some regulations for

India as well as governmental use.

"We are also looking to develop in the Indian market,"

said the company's CEO, Robert Dingemanse.

"We are having discussions at governmental and private

sector-level for cooperation to develop markets and

investigate possibilities to supply parts (from here) to our

company," he said.

As part of the Smart City project, the Vadodara

Municipal Corporation will sign an MoU with Dutch company ARS

T and TT with an aim to explore potential collaboration based

on technical expertise and vast experience of the company in

traffic and transport area.

Netherlands' AWECT will sign an MoU with the VMC to

set up a high-efficient waste and energy plant in Vadodara.

Dutch company Philips will sign an MoU with the state

government in healthcare delivery system with the company

willing to set up a radiology and cardiology centres in every

district for Gujarat.