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Tamil parties sought India’s assistance for socio-economic development of estate community: Mano
Colombo, April 7 (Daily Mirror) - Several Opposition political parties which met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Sri Lanka called for Indian assistance for socio-economic development of the plantation community, Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) leader MP Mano Ganesan said today.
"We sought socio-economic and educational assistance with the scope of current assistance to be broadened and new avenues that could be opened," he told the Daily Mirror.
MP Ganesan together with MPs of his party and the CWC held the meeting with the visiting Indian PM over the weekend.
"We requested Indian logistical support to establish an exclusive teacher training college that could produce teachers in the subjects of Science, Mathematics, English, IT and a nurses training institute for our girls and the establishment of a campus affiliated with a prestigious Indian University,” he added.
"We will not burden you with our political demands. We will submit our political proposals when the government commences the new Constitutional process," TPA leader Mano Ganesan had told the Indian Prime Minister.
"On the national economic aspect, we firmly stated that Sri Lanka's forward march is necessarily tied up with the world's fifth largest economy, Indian. We welcomed the economical connectivity represented by the MoUs signed between Sri Lanka and India," he also said.
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