Chennai:
The special secretary of Development Partnership
Administration P S Raghavan said that the pilot project for construction of
1,000 houses for internally displaced perons in the Northern Province of Sri
Lanka is over.
Delivering a special address during the Madras Management
Association (MMA) Awards function and 57th annual general meeting of
MMA, Raghavan, who lead a high-level Monitoring Committee from Ministry of
External Affairs to monitor the reconstruction work in Sri Lanka recently, said
the second phase of the housing project under the owner–driven model for
construction or repair of 43,000 houses in the Northern and Eastern Provinces
is progressing smoothly.
He said the phase was progressing well and there was a
degree of satisfaction among beneficiaries, local community and other
stakeholders with the implementation mechanism put in place by the two governments.
“The project is way ahead of plan and people are
accepting the project,” he said. To a query on how fair is the project
following allegations of Tamils being discriminated in Sri Lanka, Raghavan said
that there is a rigorous selection process for beneficiaries. “It is ensured
that the beneficiaries are Tamils only,” he said.
He refused to talk about the political rights of Tamils
in Sri Lanka, stating that the primary focus is on dealing with rehabilitation
of the displaced people.
Raghavan also said that the economic situation in the
northern province of Sri Lanka has greatly improved.
Raghavan also said the work on multi-million dollar Salma
Dam Project, which is one of the two big projects India undertook in
Afghanistan, the other being the Parliament building, is progressing under
difficult circumstances.
The project, which will meet energy and irrigation
requirement of Western Afghanistan, with a capacity of producing 42Mw of power
and irrigating 75,000 hectares of land, is progressing on a difficult terrain. “At
times the workers will be caught in the firing between Afghan troops and rebels
but work goes on,” said Raghavan.
The Development Administration Partnership (DPA) was
created in the Ministry of External Affairs in January 2012 to effectively
handle India’s aid projects through the stages of concept, launch, execution
and completion.
Earlier, Raghavan along with D Shivakumar, president of
All india Management Association and senior vice-president Nokia, presented MMA
awards to Rane (Madras) Ltd in the manufacturing category, Sundaram Finance Ltd
for the services category, Adtech Systems Ltd, Trivandrum for the small and
medium enterprises category and National Institute of Technology, Trichy in
educational institutions category.
The aim of the award is to promote sound management
ideas, knowledge, experience and practices in various disciplines.
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