Prof. Shrestha, the Head of External Affairs & Global Engagement and a Professor in Mechanical
Engineering at the Kathmandu University (KU), Nepal, visited Sri Lanka on the 1 st of December
2019 to further develop the collaborative framework between KU and SLTC. He had a series of
meetings with Mr. Kumarasinghe Sirisena, Chairman of Sri Lanka Telecom, Mr. Ranjith Rubasinghe,
President of SLTC and Dr. Nanda Gunawardane, Director, Research and International Affairs of
SLTC at the SLTC City Campus in Colombo, following their meeting in Kathmandu, earlier this year.
During the discussions, the two institutions reached a consensus on academic collaborations such
as credit transfers, staff /students exchanges and establishing research collaborations.
In recognition of the lack of education in the field of sanitation, technology in Sri Lanka, Prof.
Shrestha proposed an elective course to be designed by KU and to be delivered online to students
at SLTC and based on the response to offer a more comprehensive program on the subject.
Furthermore, on the invitation of Prof. Shrestha, the representatives of SLTC attended the closing
ceremony of the workshop facilitated by IHE Delft, Netherland with support from Bill Gates and
Melinda Foundation at the BMICH on the 4th of December 2019.
