India, France signed MoU

India and France have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on preserving written heritage by conserving, developing and publicity of written heritage at the National Library.  The Union Ministry of Culture and National Library of France have sealed it.
The signing was attended by the National Library of France President Bruno Racine. The Ministry of Culture has also emphasised on the project of building a National Virtual Library of India.
Under the MoU, 
1.The two countries would collaborate in preserving, identifying and publicising written heritage and iconographies heritage. 
2. The two countries will share expertise such as description of Indian manuscripts in Sanskrit and Tamil 

Advantages of signing this MoU:  help in the development of digital co-operation, sharing of technical and other expertise, competency and skill-building and cultural co-operation between both the countries.