Kathmandu May 4: Member of Parliament P.L. Singh and Pradip Man Singh visited different villages of Srilanka from April 26th to May 1st at the invitation of Sarwodaya President Dr. A.T. Aryaratna of Sri Lanka.

The Nepalese delegates inspected many development programmes.

Sarwodaya has been launching various programmes on village development. The programmes have proved to be instrumental in raising the living standard of the villagers.

Discussions were also held on the importance and contribution of different village development programmes.

Some of the ongoing programmes include women involvement in development, basic needs of village development such as drinking water, health, education, establishing Sarvodaya bank, income generating projects, rehabilitation activities. MP Singh said that Nepal could learn many things from the various village development programmes of Sri Lanka. He also said that Nepal village development programme is similar to Sri Lanka’s concept of village development.

Discussion was held relating to the arrangement of training programmes of three months duration and one year duration for Nepalese aspirants. MP Singh exchanged ideas about different environmental management programmes with Director General of South Asia-Co-operative Environment Programme Dr. Anand Raj Joshi.