India and Lesotho have signed an agreement for setting up vocational training centres in that country. The EXIM Bank of India has offered 4.7 million US Dollars as Line of Credit for the purpose. The agreement was signed today in New Delhi by the visiting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations of Lesotho, Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa and Minister of State for External Affairs Dr. Shashi Tharoor.<br/><br/>India is also supporting both financially and through training, the setting up of a full-fledged IT Centre at the Lerotholi Polytechnic in Maseru. Lesotho has also decided to join the Duty Free Tariff Preference scheme, announced at the the India-Africa Forum Summit in April 2008.<br/><br/>This is the first visit by the Foreign Minister of Lesotho to India in over five years. Our correspondent reports,India is keen to share the benefits of its growth and technological development with its partners and friends in the developing world especially in Africa and sees itself as a long term development partner of these countries.<br/>