Sri Lanka’s Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha recently (Dec 15) undertook a visit to India for discussions with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) in Chennai.
According to the Deputy High Commission of Sri Lanka in Chennai, the visit was part of the plan envisioned by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to establish the presence of IIT-Madras in Sri Lanka.
Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Southern India Dr. D. Venkateshwaran organized a meeting with the senior officials of the IIT Madras with Sri Lanka’s Education Minister Susil Premajayantha at the IIT-Madras campus.
Kamakodi, Director Dr. Mahesh Panchagnula, Professors of the Department of Applied Mechanics, Senior Project Officer, University Relations Priya Venkat from IIT-Madras participated in the meeting.
During the meeting, Minister Premajayantha assured to send a team of experts from Colombo to IIT Madras for further discussions on the proposal. (NewsWire)
