Lanka Prez to visit India in mid-Dec

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, Updated At : 06:56 AM Dec 01, 2024 IST

Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake

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Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake will be on his maiden visit to India in mid-December after he was elected to power in September.

Last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visited Colombo and extended the fiscal help programme to the new dispensation headed by Dissanayake.

India has offered to modernise the Kankesanthurai port through a grant to the tune of $61.5 million. India conveyed that payments for seven completed Line of Credit projects to the tune of $20 million could be converted into grant. India also decided to gift 22 diesel locomotives to the Sri Lankan Railways.

At a meeting with the Sri Lankan President, Jaishankar mentioned fuel and LNG supply, solar electrification of religious places, connectivity, digital public infrastructure, health and dairy development.

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