The
year-end National Project Steering
Committee (NPSC) Meeting of the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project
(CSIAP) was held at the Ministry of Agriculture recently. The NPSC meeting is
chaired by of Mr. Janaka Dharmakeerthi, Secretary to the Ministry of
Agriculture. The NPSC is set up at the Ministry of Agriculture to take the
overall responsibility in executing the CSIAP. 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 CSIAP’s
objectives.
The World Bank Officials, Chief Secretaries of provinces where the CSIAP is being implemented, Heads of Government Departments, Senior Officials of implementing agencies, Project Director and Provincial Deputy Project Directors joined the meeting remotely, and senior officials of the ministry and CSIAP were also present in this meeting.
Photograph by Nikeshala Kodithuwaku, PMU, CSIAP
