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News Sri Lanka JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY News FROM Sri Lanka 0$50#&3%&$&.#&3 t /6.#&3 t 43*-"/," Six Decades of Japanese Assistance Accelerates Sri Lanka’s Growth Supports Sri Lanka’s Transit to Upper Middle Income Status Aerial Surveys of Koslanda Landslide New Eli House Water Reservoir Opening INSIDE Sri Jayawardenepura Hospital JICA’s Contribution to Sri Lanka’s Growth Page–1 & 2 Over the last six decades Japan 7KH:RUOG%DQNLQLWVFRXQWU\UHSRUW The New Kelani Bridge KDV SURYLGHG RɤFLDO GHYHORSPHQW RI 0D\ DWWULEXWHV 6UL /DQND¶V Page–3 DVVLVWDQFH 2'$ LQ D PXOWLWXGH JICA’s Aerial and Field DQQXDO JURZWK RI SHUFHQW IURP Surveys of Koslanda RI ZD\V ZLWK D JUHDWHU IRFXV RQ WRWRLQYHVWPHQWVLQODUJH Landslide LQIUDVWUXFWXUH GHYHORSPHQW SURMHFWV Page–4 LQIUDVWUXFWXUH SURMHFWV LQFOXGLQJ LQ6UL/DQND7KHVHKDYHFRQWULEXWHG Remote Sensing Data for SRVW ZDU UHFRQVWUXFWLRQ HɣRUWV LQ Disaster Management WRWKHFRXQWU\DFKLHYLQJORZHUPLGGOH Page–5 LQFRPH VWDWXV 0RUH UHFHQWO\ WKH WKH1RUWKHUQDQG(DVWHUQSURYLQFHV Colombo Now Served JICA has been at the forefront of by the New Eli House Japanese International Cooperation Water Reservoir Agency (JICA) has targeted the VXFKDVVLVWDQFHDQGKDVEHHQVWHDGLO\ Page–6 GHYHORSPHQW DQG UHFRQVWUXFWLRQ RI VXSSRUWLQJ6UL/DQNDWRWUDQVLWWRDQ Multimedia Language Laboratory for Uni. of WKH HPHUJLQJ 1RUWKHUQ DQG (DVWHUQ XSSHUPLGGOHLQFRPHFRXQWU\ Sabaragamuwa provinces. 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JICA Volunteer for Bandaragama Compost Project Dinamina 23-Oct-14 Japanese funded dredger for Sri Lanka Dinamina 5-Nov-14 Japanese Way of Composting in a Cardboard Box Sirikatha 10-Nov-14 Third Kelani Bridge coming to HDVHWUDɤF Daily Mirror 24-Nov-14 The case for public transport Daily FT 12-Dec-14 JICA’s role in empowering Sri Lanka to prevent and manage Disasters Daily Mirror 18-Dec-14 Japan & JICA always a helping hand to Sri Lanka Lakbima 25-Dec-14 Sri Lanka Tsunami 10th Anniversary Dinamina 26-Dec-14 CALENDAR Japan’s role as a development partner to Sri Lanka, commenced JANUARY - MARCH January in 1954, with support for six Sri Lankan officials to visit Japan for Disaster Education a technical training programme. Since then, JICA has conducted Programme for School Children various kinds of financial and technical assistance ongoing to February more than 1,000 billion JPY equivalent to 1,300 billion LKR. 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