New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will on June 18 inaugurate renovated Duraiappah Stadium via video conferencing in Jaffna, the capital city of the Northern Province.
According to a report in Economic Times, the Prime Minister will also address the inauguration ceremony via video conferencing from here. Sirisena will be the chief guest at the event.
Jaffna is the capital of the troublesome northern province of Sri Lanka. It has witnessed massacres, atrocities by both militiamen and soldiers and the birth of Tamil aspirations for a separate Eelam.
The stadium has been renovated by the joint effort of both the countries by Lankan Company Wahid Constructions. The stadium also features a gym.
A 400 metre track playground has been laid with the additional facilities of sanitary and garbage disposal facilities along with new floodlights.
The facility is expected to benefit almost 50,000 students in the region.
In 2015, Narendra Modi was the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the former war-torn Jaffna, the citadel of Tamils in Sri Lanka, six years after the war between LTTE and Sri Lankan army ended with the dreaded LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran killed in encounter.
With the war now over, India has several infrastructure development projects on the ground. India is also building around 50,000 homes in Jaffna.
