COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Thursday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving a grant of $22.eight million for working unfastened emergency ambulance service in the island country.
India had given a grant of $22.eight million - $7.6 million in first segment in 2016 and in second instalment $15.2 million this yr - to Sri Lankan government to run unfastened ambulance products and services.
Sri Lanka's state minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs, Harsha de Silva advised the parliament that Modi had come to Sri Lanka in March 2015 and said that "he wished to provide a grant to Sri Lanka".
The minister said that he advised PM Modi about Sri Lanka's need for an emergency ambulance care service.
"He (Modi) agreed, and an aid of $7.6 million came as the first instalment. It was totally free and nothing to pay back," de Silva said, adding that during the second one segment, Sri Lanka got a grant of $15.2 million.
The minister said that the unfastened ambulance service, made conceivable by means of the folks of India, was one of the crucial biggest grants India ever made out of doors the country's assistance to construct 50,000 homes in the north and east of Sri Lanka, and the Indian help in rebuilding the country after the 2004 Tsunami.
"I wish to thank Prime Minister Modi and the people of India for this wonderful gift. People of Sri Lanka will be ever grateful to you," de Silva said.
The India-aided unfastened ambulance service is recently working parallel to the Sri Lankan government's unfastened ambulance service.
India had given a grant of $22.eight million - $7.6 million in first segment in 2016 and in second instalment $15.2 million this yr - to Sri Lankan government to run unfastened ambulance products and services.
Sri Lanka's state minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs, Harsha de Silva advised the parliament that Modi had come to Sri Lanka in March 2015 and said that "he wished to provide a grant to Sri Lanka".
The minister said that he advised PM Modi about Sri Lanka's need for an emergency ambulance care service.
"He (Modi) agreed, and an aid of $7.6 million came as the first instalment. It was totally free and nothing to pay back," de Silva said, adding that during the second one segment, Sri Lanka got a grant of $15.2 million.
The minister said that the unfastened ambulance service, made conceivable by means of the folks of India, was one of the crucial biggest grants India ever made out of doors the country's assistance to construct 50,000 homes in the north and east of Sri Lanka, and the Indian help in rebuilding the country after the 2004 Tsunami.
"I wish to thank Prime Minister Modi and the people of India for this wonderful gift. People of Sri Lanka will be ever grateful to you," de Silva said.
The India-aided unfastened ambulance service is recently working parallel to the Sri Lankan government's unfastened ambulance service.
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