China-Sri Lanka Space Cooperation Worries India’s National Security Council
Concern is growing in Indian security establishments over increasing Chinese footprints in Sri Lanka’s strategic sectors,the Hindu reports.
According to the Hindu, the National Security Council Secretariat has called an inter-ministerial consultation next week to decide on “possible approaches” to protect “Indian interests” in its neighbourhood.
Rohitha Rajapaksa and engineers of SupremeSAT
The latest to cause alarm are reports ofChinese-Sri Lankan collaboration in the area of space, the newspaper reported.
A Sri Lankan firm, Supreme SAT (Pvt.) Ltd. is likely to launch its first communication satellite with Chinese help in 2015. In mid-2012, the National Security Adviser (NSA) had discussed this issue and the Department of Space was asked to “provide assessment of the security implications” on India due to Sri Lanka’s space programme.
Supreme SAT (Pvt.) Ltd. signed an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka in May 2012 to launch the telecommunication satellite at a cost of $320 million in partnership with China Great Wall Industry Corporation, a state-owned Chinese company. Subsequently, it was also decided to set up a space academy-cum satellite ground station at Kandy.
The inter-ministerial meeting under the leadership of Deputy NSA on March 25 would discuss the issue threadbare, the Hindu reported.
The Vadaliyadaippu flood canal construction work has got terminated due to the non-implementation of the agreement made with the divisional council was said by its Chairman A.Jebanesan.
The flood canal located at Vadaliyadaippu in the Waligamam South west region, is not in the state of floods getting flown out during rainy season, hence the people from the locality were facing immense difficulties.
Due to this problem, the Jaffna district government agent made arrangements to allocated finance towards this construction activity.
The divisional council was appointed as an organization to implement the relevant work. Accordingly the work was handed over to a contractor.
The relevant contract was signed with the divisional council, and it was notified that the flood canal construction would be built with three bars but during construction only two was utilized.
This was made aware by Kumanan, Jifrico,Mahendran, Sivakumar and Gowrikanthan the divisional council members to the divisional council Chairman.
Accordingly divisional council Chairman requested the technical officer to explore the above issue and to submit a report.
Subsequently it was proved that the assignment was not processed according to the agreement made by the Contractor with the council. This cause the divisional council works to get suspended.
Chairman said, concerning this Sandilippai divisional secretariat had been notified.
Thursday , 21 March 2013
