Japan on Tuesday offered assistance in conducting a feasibility study for monorail service on a 50km stretch between Gurgaon on the city's outskirts and Bawana in northwest Delhi.

This was conveyed during a meeting between Japan's minister of land, infrastructure and transport Akihiro Ohta and urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu.

Ohta led a 20-member delegation, including senior officials from the departments of city planning, policy division, overseas projects division, planning division, roads bureau and railways bureau.

The Japanese delegation offered location-specific multimodal transport solutions encompassing metro rail, monorail and light rail transport for urban areas in India, including "intelligent transport solutions" for smart cities proposed to be developed.

Japan has evinced keen interest in a "higher order of cooperation" with India in the urban development sector in line with "special strategic partnership" forged during the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Japan.

Ohta said his visit to India is a follow-up to Modi's recent visit to Japan, which he said has imparted a new dimension to the spirit of cooperation between the two sides.

Ohta said he would take personal interest in propelling cooperation with India in promoting infrastructure development in urban areas