India and Sri Lanka

India and Sri Lanka

India and Sri Lanka

India and Sri Lanka

UPSC

• Bilateral, regional and global grouping involving India, India and its  neighborhood etc
• India and Sri Lanka
• India has given $4 billion to Sri Lanka. Through –
• Provided Liberal loans
• Sharing technical expertise or knowledge
• Helping the country upgrade skills in different areas of economic activity.

       Agriculture and allied activities: 

India can help Sri Lanka develop its dairy sector.  Sri Lanka imports a considerable quantity of milk powder from India and annually imports dairy products worth $315 million.

• Poultry : wheat which is largely used as the primary ingredient in domestic poultry feed.
• Energy projects: Provisional approvals for the Adani Group’s wind power projects of over $500 million in the Northern Province.
• (Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance with ‘Digital MSME’ and‘ RAMP’
• Like  programmes. )
• Education:
• India smart classrooms and modern computer School education for hill country Tamils, the most underprivileged section in Sri Lankan society.
• Satellite campuses in Sri Lanka  Higher education
• A collaborative project for Training employees of the public sector
• India can arrange for greater numbers of Buddhist monks

to visit religious places at Culture front

Way forward:

• Engagement in a constructive way with its southern neighbour, which is known for performing better than most other economies in Asia.

Equitable distribution of developmental programmes proposed by India

• Special attention  on Northern and Eastern Provinces as their contribution to Sri   
• Lanka’s GDP is hardly 10%.

Politically and economically stable Sri Lanka will be in India’s interest too.