Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2021-11-29

Capacity Building Project for Construction Courses at Technical Colleges and Colleges of Technology in Sri Lanka

- In view of providing a high quality technical and vocational education and training to meet the labour market demand in the field of construction, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has agreed to award a grant of USD 04 million to implement a project to upgrade training courses in the construction field at selected Colleges of Technology and Technical Colleges. Under the said Grant, it has been planned to improve the capacity of construction courses at the Colleges of Technology in Maradana and Ratnapura and the Technical Colleges in Ratmalana and Matara. The contribution of the Government of Sri Lanka for the project will be approximately USD 441,000. As such, the proposal made by the Minister of Education to implement the proposed project during the period from the year 2021 to the year 2024 and to sign an Agreement with the KOICA to obtain the respective Grant for the purpose, was approved by the Cabinet.