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Having faced a three decades’ of unrest followed by many environmental and other woes, the fishermen and farmers in Mannar region breathed a big sigh of relief on 26 August after they met their sectoral line Minister in their own soil. They also received some good news from him onmore

Having dared to break into entrepreneurship despite graduating with a Sri Lankan university Degree, 73 Lankan youth clinched financial grants from Sri Lanka’s National Enterprise Development Authority (NEDA) in a celebration of their start-up success.  Some such SMEs have even succeeded in nailing projects for them from well-known blue-chips. Themore

Sri Lanka’s state run job skilling apparatus, the Technical, Vocational Education Training (TVET) sector, is now poised to receive its largest project funding in its history. Once agreements are finalised, a US $ 50 million facility is set to spawn a fully-fledged Ocean University in Sri Lanka. Also nine newmore

The Rs 2290 Mn, Thanthirimale Reservoir Project – the third largest reservoir in Sri Lanka -launched on 25 August opens cultivation opportunity through both seasons for many northern farmers for the first time in a long time. “So far the farmers in this Northern region have been farming for onlymore

A skilled labour force can play a defining role to attract FDIs to Sri Lanka. “I stress that more NVQ qualified youth can help develop our industries as well and attract FDI to our industry zones” said the Minister of Industry, Commerce, Resettlement of Protracted Displaced Persons, Cooperative Development, Skillsmore

Backed by the global industrial giant South Korea, Sri Lanka launched its most modern national hi-tech training facility to-date on 21 August. As it unveiled its up-to-date TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) facility in a Colombo suburb, Sri Lanka also said that its skills development work has shownmore

Since its establishment on 16 August 1995, the Vocational Training Authority (VTA) now vested under my Ministry, has been striving in the past 24 years to bring high quality vocational training to the rural youth and depressed segments of Sri Lankan society due to the salient fact that 57% ofmore

The government has allocated increasingly bigger volumes of funds for Northern Provincial development in the last three years. “This government has allocated massive funds for the development of Northern province and more projects are to be launched” said the Minister of Industry, Commerce, Resettlement of Protracted Displaced Persons, Cooperative Development,more

After more than a century of merchandising and deal-making, traders in Sri Lanka’s retail and wholesale ‘Pettah Market’ hub are vying for a bigger domain as they prepare to ink many Chamber to Chamber MoUs-and also venture into global trade. “Once we link with the Chamber by affiliation, next we will gomore