{"id":79434,"date":"2018-07-19T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79434"},"modified":"2018-07-19T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:44:34","slug":"india-gives-lanka-us-1-8-million-for-building-toilets-in-batticaloa-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/19\/india-gives-lanka-us-1-8-million-for-building-toilets-in-batticaloa-district\/","title":{"rendered":"India gives Lanka US$ 1.8 million for building toilets in Batticaloa district"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Colombo, July 19 (newsin.asia): India and Sri Lanka signed on Wednesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a sanitation sector project under which\u00a03400 toilets would be constructed in Batticaloa district in Eastern Sri Lanka with a grant of LKR 300 million (US$ 1.8 million) from the government of India.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The MoU was signed by Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka and\u00a0Mrs. Renuka Ekanayake, Secretary, Ministry of\u00a0Fisheries &amp; Aquatic Resources Development and Rural Economy, in the presence of M.S.S. Ameer Ali, Deputy Minister of Fisheries &amp; Aquatic Resources Development and Rural Economy, senior officials of Government of Sri Lanka, India\u2019s Deputy High Commissioner Arindam Bagchi and Counselor Development Projects Manjunath Cheneerappa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"India gives Lanka US$ 1.8 million for building toilets in Batticaloa district\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/signing.jpg?fit=701%2C466&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"India gives Lanka US$ 1.8 million for building toilets in Batticaloa district\" width=\"543\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This project is part of Government of India\u2019s continued efforts to assist and cooperate with Government of Sri Lanka in people-oriented development projects.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s overall commitment of development assistance to Sri Lanka stands at a total of around US$ 2.9 billion, o<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 19 (newsin.asia): India and Sri Lanka signed on Wednesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a sanitation sector project under which\u00a03400 toilets would be constructed in Batticaloa district in Eastern Sri Lanka with a grant of LKR 300 million (US$ 1.8 million) from the government of India. The MoU was signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79434","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=79434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}