Vice President Radhakrishnan to visit Lanka on Sunday to strengthen bilateral ties

Vice President C P Radhakrishnan leaves here on Sunday on a two-day official visit to Sri Lanka. This will be the first bilateral visit by the Vice-President of India to the island nation.

During the visit, he will call on Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Disanayaka. He will also meet Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, along with other dignitaries tomorrow.

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He will interact with leaders of Indian-origin Tamil Community and Tamil Leaders from the Northern and Eastern regions of Sri Lanka.

Later in the day, the Vice President will address the Indian diaspora at a community event in Colombo, where he will virtually hand over houses to beneficiaries from Tamil communities, built with assistance from the Government of India as part of the third phase of the Indian Housing Project. With this, the total number of houses for Tamil communities will reach 50,000, and 10,000 more houses are being built in the fourth phase of the project.

On Monday, the Vice President will travel to Nuwara Eliya, visit the Indian Housing Projects, and interact with the local Tamil community.

This visit follows recent high-level engagements between the two countries and is expected to further strengthen the millennia-old civilisational and people-to-people ties between India and Sri Lanka, an official release said.