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Development Projects has been signed. In Eastern Sri Lanka, projects for
providing fishing equipment to the fishermen and solar energy-aided
computer education in 25 rural schools are under consideration.

Health Projects: India has supplied medical equipment to hospitals at
Hambantota and Point Pedro, four state-of-the-art ambulances to the Central
Province, implemented a cataract eye surgery programme for 1,500 people in
the Central Province and implemented a project of renovation of the

operation theatre at Dickoya hospital and supplying equipment to it.

The projects under consideration are: Construction of a 150-bed hospital at
Dickoya, upgradation of the hospital at Trincomalee and a $7.5 million grant

for setting up a Cancer Hospital in Colombo.

Education Projects: Upgrading the educational infrastructure of the schools
in the Central Province including teachers’ training, setting up of 10

computer labs, setting up of 20 e-libraries (Nenasalas), Mahatma Gandhi
scholarship scheme for +2 students and setting up of a vocational training

centre in Puttalam. India also contributes to the Ceylon Workers Education
Trust that gives scholarships to the children of estate workers.

Training: A training programme for 465 Sri Lankan police officers
commenced in December 2005. Another 400 Sri Lankan police personnel are

being trained for the course on ‘Maintenance of Public Order’.

INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL

The 123 Agreement signed between the United States of America and the
Republic of India is known as the US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement or

Indo-US nuclear deal. The framework for this agreement was a joint
statement by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President
George W Bush on 18 July 2005, under which India agreed to separate its

civil and military nuclear facilities and to place all its civil nuclear facilities
under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and, in
exchange, the United States agreed to work toward full civil nuclear

cooperation with India. This US-India deal took more than three years to