Friday 29 July 2022

The 07th National Project Steering Committee of the CSIAP

The 07th  National Project Steering Committee (NPSC)  of the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP) chaired by Mr. M.B Rohana Pushpakumara, the Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture is being held today (29th) at the Auditorium of the Ministry of Agriculture.

 The NPSC is set up at the Ministry of Agriculture, which takes the overall responsibility for executing the project. The NPSC will consist of key officials of the major stakeholder agencies of the central government, provincial government, private sector and the apex level community organizations mainly to provide policy guidance to the project and to ensure achieving the project’s objectives.

Chief Secretaries of the six provinces where the CSIAP is being implemented, Senior officials of the World Bank, Implementing agencies, and Deputy Project Directors of the CSIAP provincial joined the meeting remotely via WebEx video conferencing, and senior officials of the Ministry of Agriculture were present physically in this meeting.