Knowledge initiative: India to send team to Lanka

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New Delhi (PTI): As part of its efforts to help Sri Lanka become a trilingual society, India will send a high- level team to the island nation.

The decision was taken at a meeting here today between HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris, official sources said.

The Indian assistance is part of a knowledge initiative that will assist in making the island nation into a trilingual society improving linkages between universities in the two countries.

A joint declaration signed in June between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said both leaders agreed to launch the initiative.

The two sides had also agreed to further promote ties between Indian and Sri Lankan universities and institutions of higher learning.