India is helping Sri Lanka fight economic crisis, Union minister says

COIMBATORE: India is extending all sorts of assistance to Sri Lanka to help the island nation overcome its economic crisis, said Union minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan on Thursday.
Addressing the students of Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology in Coimbatore, the minister said the Union government had provided regular assistance ranging from finance, medicines, energy security and food supply to Sri Lanka.
He added, "Under the neighbourhood-first policy, we have reconstructed the Jaffna library, airport and the signature cultural centre by offering financial assistance, besides renovating hospitals and schools. Likewise, we have built 50,000 houses basically meant for the Tamil-speaking people of Sri Lanka."
He said India had been sending aids like medicines and food materials to the citizens of Afghanistan despite there being disagreements with the dispensation that has come to power in the country. “Our connection is people to people, and that is the policy that the prime minister has adopted," he said.