🇮🇳🤝🇱🇰 India-Funded Mahatma Gandhi Model Village Opens in Ampara

• High Commissioner of India Santosh Jha and Minister of Housing (Dr.) Susil Ranasinghe jointly inaugurated and handed over the Mahatma Gandhi Model Village in Ampara on October 29. • The village provides housing facilities to 24 beneficiary families in the district. • This is part of a larger, grant-funded Government of India project implemented jointly with Sri Lanka's Ministry of Housing across all 25 districts (24 houses per district). • The project aims to benefit a total of 600 low-income families nationwide. • Ampara marks the 17th district where a village has been handed over. • Overall project progress is nearly 98%, with the remaining villages expected to be inaugurated and handed over to beneficiaries soon.