Chennai: "Atal Behari Vajpayee Centre for Information Technology" set up in Mongolia, would commence functioning from September 2002, Mongolian Ambassador to India Oidov Nyamdavaa, said.

Talking after inaugurating a full-fledged consulate in Chennai, he said the decision to set up the centre, a joint venture between the governments of the two countries, was taken during the visit of Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan to Mongolia last year.

He said it had also been decided to set up joint venture higher secondary schools, colleges and a university in that country between Ulaan Bator and New Delhi and also with Indian private sector participation.

Referring to an eight-member official trade delegation from his country currently in Chennai to attract Indian investment in Mongolia, Nyamdavaa said the team had visited Central Leather Research Institute in Chennai and discussed upgradation of tanneries in his country.

Private sector leather industry was also approached to set up manufacturing units for finished leather products.

PTI