The Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh, will inaugurate a Colloquium in New Delhi on 8 April in honour of the late Dr. Lal Jayawardena, Economist and Diplomat, and a former secretary to the Treasury and High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to the United Kingdom. Mr N. Ram, Editor of The Hindu will chair the Colloquium.

Minister of Finance, Dr. Sarath Amunugama will attend the Colloquium as the Special Representative of the President of Sri Lanka.

The Colloquium will focus on some key development issues with which Dr. Jayawardena was involved during his career in Sri Lanka and in the United Nations.

These include Hunger and Poverty in Economic Development, Structural Adjustment in Developing Countries, Employment and South Asian Regional Economic Co-operation.

Among the 80 invitees attending the Colloquium are: the Minister of Petroleum and Panchayat Raj Hon. Mani Shankar Aiyer, Deputy Chairman Indian Planning Commission Dr. Montik Singh Ahluwalia, former Governor of Reserve Bank of India Dr. Arjun Singh Gupta, Member of Parliament Dr. Bimal Jalan and Editor of the Economic and Political Weekly Shri Rammanohar Reddy from India and from Sri Lanka are the immediate family of Dr. Jayawardena, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in India Mangala Moonesinghe, Dr. A. S. Jayawardena and Dr. Saman Kelegama.