Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya on Friday expressed gratitude to the Government of India for continuous assistance in the island nation’s education sphere. Amarasuriya was addressing a gathering in the north central region of Polonnaruwa, the Indian High Commission said. The Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha and the Lankan PM were guests at the handing over ceremony of the Multi-Ethnic Trilingual School in Polonnaruwa, built with an Indian grant. The Indian financial assistance to the project stands at over SLR 320 million. Amarasuriya expressed gratitude to the Government and people of India for the project and said that with the handing over, India has done its part, and now it is the Sri Lankan Government’s responsibility to take the initiative forward.