Japan Provides Rs 880 Million Grant to Strengthen Export Certification in Sri Lanka
New Delhi: The Government of Japan has agreed to provide a Japanese Yen 500 million grant to the Government of Sri Lanka under the Japanese non-project grant aid scheme for the provision of equipment to strengthen the diagnostic techniques and phytosanitary inspection services to the facilitation of export certification in the country.
The National Plant Quarantine Services facilitate the international movement of healthy plants and plant products for the development of national agriculture and related industries.
The Exchange of Notes pertaining to the above grant was signed by S. R. Attygalle, Secretary, Ministry of Finance on behalf of the GOSL, and MIZUKOSHI Hideaki, Ambassador of Government of Japan on April 04, 2022, at the Ministry of Finance.
Sri Lanka, however, facing financial and economical problems nowadays. People of Sri Lanka do not have enough money and sources to survive a country’s economic condition worsened in the last few weeks.
Minister Johnston Fernando told the Parliament on Wednesday said, “Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign from his post despite the countrywide protests calling for the leader to step down over his handling of the ongoing economic crisis.”
“May I remind you that 6.9 million people voted for the president,” said the chief government whip and highways minister in Parliament amid outrage by the opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament, according to a media report.
(Vinayak)
