President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha handed over digital equipment to several schools in the Southern Province at an event in Galle recently.
The digital equipment was distributed under a grant assistance project by the Government of India (GoI) for the establishment of 200 Smart Classrooms in the Southern Province. The project aims to equip 200 schools in the Province with digital tools that would enable them to benefit from digital resources and materials across the globe.
High Commissioner Santosh Jha addressing the gathering
President Wickremesinghe thanked the GoI and Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for the multi– pronged support to Sri Lanka in the education domain.
High Commissioner Jha said that India has witnessed major technological advancements in the education sphere in recent years. The GoI is committed to the benefits from such advancements to the students and teachers in Sri Lanka. He said that the GoI carries out several human-centric projects in the Southern Province and added that more than 1,300 houses are being constructed by the GoI for homeless families in the three Districts of the Province.
The establishment of Smart Classrooms in the Southern Province is being implemented under the bilateral High Impact Community Development Project framework. Eighteen grant projects cutting across sectors are being carried out under this framework in all the 25 Districts of Sri Lanka. The value of the projects is around Rs. 5.5 billion.
Education Minister Dr. Susil Premajayantha and Health Minister Dr. Ramesh Pathirana were also present.
