New Delhi: India has started a humanitarian grant help program for the fishermen and their families in the northern province of Sri Lanka.
On Sunday, Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay and Sri Lankan Minister for Fisheries Douglas Devananda jointly inaugurated the project which aims to provide food and other essential household supplies to 1,200 families from Jaffna, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi, and Mannar.
Jaffna was the first to benefit from this aid program, which will open soon in other areas.
Baglay expressed gratitude to Devananda and other leaders for facilitating the visit of Indian fishermen and pilgrims to the Annual Festival at St. Anthony’s shrine in Kachchateevu.
He also launched a fully sponsored Indian project in collaboration with the Jaffna District Development Committee (DDC) on an artificial limb fitment camp in Jaffna under the auspices of the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS. It aims to offer the Jaipur Foot to the Sri Lankan armed forces personnel with locomotor disabilities.
(Venkatesh)