NEW DELHI, Apr 27: Bhutan will supply liquid oxygen to India through a new plant being built by S.D. Cryogenics Gases Pvt. Ltd., a Bhutanese firm, at the Motanga Industrial Estate in the Samdrup Jongkhar district to help India tide over the oxygen shortage situation.
According to the Indian High Commission in Thimphu, 40 tonnes of liquid oxygen provided by the Oxygen Plant will be exported to Assam every day via cryogenic tankers. S D Cryogenics has made a 51 per cent domestic investment in the oxygen factory, and Meghalaya Oxygen Pvt. Ltd., an Assam-based Indian firm, has made a 49 per cent FDI investment.
Sri Lanka
Rewant Vikram Singh, Director of Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC), the cultural arm of the High Commission of India in Sri Lanka, undertook a three-day “Dhamma Yatra” to Kadurawewa and Bingiriya villages in the Kurunegala district to highlight the strong people-to-people link and shared Buddhist heritage between India and Sri Lanka. The Yatra was organised primarily to commemorate the auspicious Bak Full Moon Poya Day which fell on Monday.
According to The Indian High Commission in Colombo, Singh was invited by the local clerics to visit the neighbouring villages of Kadigamuwe and Panawawe. He prayed at the local temples and Pirivena in addition to paying homage to Mahasangha in these two villages. He also participated in ‘Dhatu Wandana’ at the Sacred Buddha relics in Sri Sudarshanaramaya Temple, Kadurawewa on Bak Full Moon Poya day.
The Mahasangha and the people of the villages praised the Dhamma Yatra organised by the High Commission of India and asked for more similar near interactions between Sri Lankans and Indians, the high commission said.
(Venkatesh Iyer)
