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India assures interests of all communities - Envoy

COLOMBO: Indian High Commissioner Alok Prasad said the Indian diplomats here assure the interests of all Tamils and other communities in Sri Lanka.

He was speaking at the handing over of books to the value of Rs. 1 million on Tamil classics, modern literature, culture, Indian philosophy and music to the Jaffna Library at the Indian Cultural Centre recently.

The High Commissioner said India has similarly gifted educational material to the Universities in Colombo, Peradeniya, the Southern, Eastern Provinces in her policy to assist learning of the sciences in higher learning institutions in Sri Lanka.

It is the intention of the Indian Government to continue to do so. The High Commissioner went back to the pre-1947 period and recalled the late Swami Vipulanandan, a great Tamil Sanskrit and Bhagvadgita scholar - a Lankan teaching at the Annamalai University in Chennai.

He said some of the rare manuscripts in the then Jaffna University had gained scholarly fame and were so much in demand in India that scholar-students used to visit Jaffna arranged by Swami Vipulanandan to take manual copies of these rare literature at a time when photocopying facilities were not known.

It was a privilege, to continue the association with a historical institute of learning of distinction and to be of assistance to it, he said.

India has provided ambulances, buses, costly medical and surgical equipment to the people of the Tamil-speaking provinces of the North-East. Musical instruments were handed over by the High Commission to the Nallur Music Society.

The Base Hospitals in Jaffna and Trincomalee have been beneficiaries of substantial equipment and other assistance from India in recent times.

India’s diplomats here assure very much close to her heart the interests of all Tamils in Sri Lanka - as indeed it does consider the welfare of all other communities in Sri Lanka who also receive substantial assistance regularly from India as part of growing Indo-Lankan co-operation and friendship.

Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Jaffna University Dr. K. Sivapalan accepting a further consignment of books on Medicine for the Jaffna University Medical Faculty valued over Rs. 1.5 million thanked the Indian Government for this generous gift. Dr. Sivapalan expressed the need for a well-equipped para-medic section in the Faculty and hoped the Indian Government would consider assistance in this regard.

He mentioned several doctors in the University and hospitals in the Peninsula have recently graduated from Indian Universities.

Jaffna Municipal Commissioner S. M. Saravanabavan also spoke.

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