A total of 155 houses built by India under the Indian Housing Project in Sri Lanka, were on Sunday handed over to the residents of the country's plantation area.The handover took place in a special ceremony at Bridwell Estate in Bogawantalawa jointly by Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe and High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu in the presence of the Minister for Hill country New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development, Palani Digambaram.Wickremesinghe, in his remarks, thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Government of India for the development support extended to Sri Lanka.The High Commissioner, in his remarks on the occasion, congratulated the owners of the newly built independent houses.Sandhu underscored that the Indian Housing Project in Sri Lanka with a grant of over 350 million USD (about 50 billion LKR), was the largest Indian grant assistance project in any country abroad. He also recalled that out of the total ...
