Lanka: India to uplift health and vocational facilities

Sri Lanka: India has extended assistance to uplift health and vocational facilities in Sri Lanka.

Two Memoranda of Understanding were signed on April 16 by High Commissioner of India Alok Prasad and Treasury Secretary Dr. P. B. Jayasundera, a Finance and Planning Ministry release said.

The first MoU pertains to construction of a 150-bedded district general hospital at Dickoya, Hatton. The Government of Sri Lankan has provided three acres. The project will be implemented by M/s HSCC (India) Ltd. While the final cost of the project would be around 918 million.

The second MoU pertains to setting up of facilities at Rural Vocational Training Centre at Nagawillu, Puttalam. The estimated cost of the project is Rs. 55.7 million.

The project shall be implemented by HMT (International) Ltd., over the next six to eight months. It will create facilities at the Training Centre by supplying equipment and training to carry out short-term, modular and full-time courses in vocational training for the people in Puttalam.

The project aims to establish training facilities such as a computer laboratory, domestic electrical laboratory, and aluminium fabrication shop. It will also provide three buses to transport students and the training of Sri Lankan instructors in India.

The Government will ensure infrastructure facilities such as classrooms, laboratories and workshops at the centre and carry out civil, electrical and allied works at the facility, the release said.