India gives US$ 2.4 million to eastern education

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The Government of India in a measure to develop educational facilities in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka has granted US$ 2.4 million worth of equipment to the Trincomalee Campus of the Eastern University and to 261 schools in the Province.

The Indian government in an initiative to assist Sri Lanka in promoting traditional medicine forms has provided 105 million rupees worth grant assistance to equip the Siddha Faculty in the Trincomalee campus of Sri Lanka’s Eastern University to carry out research and studies in the field of Siddha medicine, the High Commission said in a statement.

Under the grant assistance, the Government of India has supplied laboratory equipment, computers, reference books, anatomical models and charts, a bus and a jeep for the use of the Siddha Faculty. The High Commissioner of India Ashok K. Kantha in a ceremony held over the weekend, at the Trincomalee Campus of Eastern University handed over the Indian grant assistance to the Siddha Faculty, the Indian High Commission in Colombo said in a press release.