Indian HC extends multi-sectoral assistance to Central, Sabaragamuwa, Uva and North Western Provinces
COLOMBO – The High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha inaugurated an Indian Gallery at the Mahatma Gandhi International Centre (MGIC) in Matale on Tuesday (20).
The MGIC was constructed under Indian grant assistance in 2015, and the Gallery houses rich informative recourses on cultural, historical, social, political, economic and other aspects of India.
The High Commissioner later distributed solar lanterns to some of the beneficiaries of Phase III of the Indian Housing Project (IHP), and notebooks and school bags to students of plantation schools.
A statement from the Indian High Commission said the distribution of both solar lanterns and notebooks/school bags will continue, with the former extended to cover all 4000 beneficiary households of Phase III of the IHP, and the latter to 10,000 beneficiary students from the plantation regions.
The assistance, the statement said forms part of the special multi-sectoral grant assistance package of INR 750 million to mark 200 years of the arrival of the Indian-origin Tamil community to Sri Lanka, which was announced during the visit of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe to India last year.
Additional District Secretary, Matale, officials from the Provincial Councils of Central, Uva, Sabaragamuwa and North Western Provinces, and members of the Board of the MGIC attended Tuesday’s Gallery inauguration.
Earlier in the day, the High Commissioner visited one of the centres at Peradeniya Hindu College of the STEM teacher-training program underway in Sri Lanka and interacted with the teachers and teacher-trainers.
The 10-week STEM teacher-training program is also an initiative being conducted under the special multi-sectoral grant assistance package of INR 750 million to the Indian-origin Tamil community in Sri Lanka. The program is scheduled to be conducted across 40 centres and is expected to benefit hundreds of teachers from the plantation schools by the time of its conclusion.
Senior officials from the Central Province including the Deputy Chief Secretary and officials of the Ministry of Education, Central Provincial Council also participated in the event at Peradeniya Hindu College.
-ENCL
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