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Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha met Sri Lanka's Housing and Construction curate to sermon reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts pursuing Cyclone Ditwah, which has killed 486 radical truthful acold successful the land nation.
Mr. Jha's gathering with Minister of Housing, Construction and Water Supply Susil Ranasinghe took spot arsenic Sri Lanka is grappling with wide flooding, landslides and terrible infrastructure illness triggered by Cyclone Ditwah.
It has near respective districts isolated and severely straining the country's disaster-response capacity.
High Commissioner @santjha met Hon. Dr Susil Ranasinghe, Minister of Housing, Construction & Water Supply. Discussed avenues to physique connected existing robust 🇮🇳🇱🇰 improvement practice successful the Housing assemblage to code reconstruction & rehabilitation requirements successful the aftermath of… pic.twitter.com/hZLgc2aqsb
— India successful Sri Lanka (@IndiainSL) December 5, 2025The 2 "discussed avenues to physique connected existing robust India-Sri Lanka improvement practice successful the Housing assemblage to code reconstruction and rehabilitation requirements successful the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah," the Indian High Commission said successful a station connected X connected Friday (December 5, 2025).
According to a study by the land nation's Disaster Management Centre aboriginal connected Friday, 486 radical person been killed and 341 are missing owed to catastrophic floods and landslides caused by utmost upwind conditions since November 16.
As galore arsenic 2,303 houses person been afloat damaged portion 52,489 person been partially damaged successful the aftermath of the cyclone, according to the data.
India has been extending humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka nether Operation Sagar Bandhu, with extended air, oversea and crushed operations delivering urgent alleviation to those affected.
