{"id":107621,"date":"2020-10-15T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107621"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:48:10","slug":"indian-high-commissioner-meets-prime-minister-rajapaksa-discusses-ongoing-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/15\/indian-high-commissioner-meets-prime-minister-rajapaksa-discusses-ongoing-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian High Commissioner Meets Prime Minister Rajapaksa, Discusses Ongoing Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>October 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The High Commissioner of India Gopal Baglay called on\nPrime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this afternoon at Temple Trees and discussed\nseveral ongoing projects as well as possible cooperation in new sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary purpose of the High Commissioners\u2019s visit\nwas to follow-up on the virtual summit that was held between Prime Minister\nRajapaksa and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month. Both leaders have\nexpressed satisfaction on the virtual summit, which was the first virtual\nengagement of Prime Minister Rajapaksa since resumption of office as the Prime\nMinister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One priority sector for Prime Minister Rajapaksa is\nwater and sanitation. The High Commissioner noted several areas on which the\ntwo countries could collaborate, including water requirements in schools,\nsanitation needs, rainwater harvesting, building of toilets for deprived areas,\nand a project that could convert sewage into fertilizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Rajapaksa indicated that the lack of safe\ndrinking water in certain parts of the country is the main concern, including\nthe role it plays in chronic kidney disease. This is now a key priority for the Sri Lankan Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Commissioner Baglay spoke of the possibility to\ncollaborate with Prime Minister Modi\u2019s Jal Jeevan Mission\u201d (Water for Life\nMission), which is the Indian Government\u2019s program that aims to provide potable water for every household.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Rajapaksa noted that the lack of drinking\nwater is a particularly serious problem in the dry zone region of Sri Lanka and\nrequested the High Commissioner to look into any assistance that can be\nprovided towards that end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime\nMinister also requested India to look at the pharmaceutical sector and\nencourage Indian investors to establish research and manufacturing facilities\nin Sri Lanka to help the country meet its medicinal drug required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Media Unit October 15, 2020 The High Commissioner of India Gopal Baglay called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this afternoon at Temple Trees and discussed several ongoing projects as well as possible cooperation in new sectors. The primary purpose of the High Commissioners\u2019s visit was to follow-up on the virtual summit that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}