Victoria, June 28 -- Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that UPI system will become operational by the end of the year in Seychelles.

Misri, while addressing the special briefing on the state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Seychelles, said that although the ties between both the nations are not yet comprehensive economic partnership, but they do share a significant substantiative partnership.

"On Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC) cooperation, Seychelles is a fairly significant user of, I don't know how many ITEC slots do you have annually? 90, so yeah, there is considerable use of ITEC training in a variety of areas by Seychelles. Timeline for UPI, I believe it will be operational by the end of the ye...