The USD 350 million Indian housing project in Sri Lanka was extended to the Nuwara Eliya district with the handing over of 150 newly built houses to plantation families on Sunday (20).
Dr. Shilpak N. Ambule, Deputy High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka was the chief gust at a special ceremony organized in connection with the vesting of ownership of these houses.
The ceremony was held at Dayagama West Estate in Nuwara Eliya with Palani Digambaram, Minister for Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development and Gayantha Karunathilake, Minister of Lands and Parliamentary Reforms handing over the houses to the beneficiaries.
The Deputy Indian High Commissioner in his remarks underscored that the Indian Housing Project in Sri Lanka with a grant of over US$ 350 million (close to 50 billion LKR), was the largest Indian grant assistance project in any country abroad.
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