India donates cement for IDP re-settlement

The Indian Government donated 400,000 cement bags valued at Rs 200 million to be used for the resettlement of the Internally Displaced People of the North, yesterday.

The donation was made at a simple ceremony held at the warehouses of Ultratech Cement Lanka (Pvt) Ltd., Peliyagoda by Indian High Commissioner Ashok K. Kantha to Nation Building and Infrastructure Development Ministry Secretary W.K.K. Kumarasiri.

The donation was in addition to 2,600 metric tons of roofing sheets donated by India for rebuilding the houses of the resettled IDPs and the food packages and non-food items given to these families during the resettlement program.

Ministry Secretary Kumarasiri accepting the donation, said during the height of the war the Indian Government provided food packs, clothes packs, kitchen sets, first aid kits to the value of Rs 610 million.

He thanked the Indian Government on behalf of the Government for the continued assistance rendered towards the rehabilitation and resettlement program of the North and East.