Costa Rica
India and Costa Rica enjoy cordial and warm relations, which are being strengthened by the growing commercial engagement between the two countries. Following India’s appointment of an Honorary Consul in San Jose in 1995, Costa Rica reciprocated by opening an Honorary Consulate in New Delhi in 1996. Costa Rica opened its Embassy in New Delhi in April 2010. The Indian Embassy in Panama is concurrently accredited to Costa Rica. India appointed its Honorary Consul General in San Jose in 2022.
Capacity Building & Other Exchanges
- As part of capacity building trainings, nearly 209 professionals from Costa Rica have been trained in India under ITEC since 2002. Of these, 51 professionals have been trained just in the previous 9 years since 2014-15.
- The ITEC programme is popular in Costa Rica and 20 ITEC slots were allocated for the year 2018-19, which have been doubled to 40 slots as announced during the HVPI Visit to Costa Rica in March 2019.
Development Cooperation (Grants/ LoCs/ Assistance)
- India’s assistance to Costa Rica includes, donation of photovoltaic equipment worth Rs.1.85 million in 1997 for setting up a solar energy research laboratory for training purposes at the University of Heredia under the ITEC programme.
- Donation of a telephone exchange to Costa Rica’s telecom operator ICE in 1998.
- Relief assistance of US$ 25,000 to help rehabilitate flood victims in 1996.
- India also donated 18 Bajaj 3-wheelers in Dec 2005 to be used by the police department of San Jose.
- India donated US$ 100,000 for relief and rehabilitation of victims of Hurricane Tomas in Nov 2010.
- A Centre of Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) was installed by C-DAC at National Technical University (UTN), Alajuela, Costa Rica and the Centre was inaugurated in March 2016 and three Aptech trainers were deployed in September 2016 for 2 years to impart training to Costa Ricans.
