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In 2020-21, it was at 77 lakh. Of this 26.6 lakh gig workers were from sales and retail trade. [3] [4] India’s young workforce is inclining toward freelance and contractual opportunities. Possessing one of the world’s highest youngest working populations, India has the potential to become the world’s largest freelance gig economy. [5]
Sri Lanka and Thailand signed a Free Trade Agreement in February 2024, and agreed to enable visa-free travel. [9] Sri Lankans are unable to travel to Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines, five of the world's most important markets, without a complex visa application process with a hefty visa fee. [10]
The NTPC claims that this plan will take the Indo-Sri Lankan relationship to a new level. [39] India stood as Sri Lanka's primary trading partner, and Sri Lanka's exports to India have notably expanded. The adoption of Rupees for trade settlement is additionally bolstering Sri Lanka's economy.
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [40] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [41]
The relationship between Sri Lanka and India became tense under the government of J. R. Jayawardene. [138] [254] As a result, India intervened in the Sri Lankan Civil War and subsequently deployed an Indian Peace Keeping Force in 1987. [255] In the present, Sri Lanka enjoys extensive relations with China, [256] Russia, [257] and Pakistan. [258]
The institute was initially established as "Society of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka", on 3 June 2000 in Colombo Sri Lanka with the help technical assistance and the guidelines of Certified of Management Accountants of Canada (CMA Canada), now CPA Canada and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) of USA and International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) which is the ...
The Sri Lankan refugees arrived in Tamil Nadu in four waves. The first wave on 24 July 1983, after Black July, to the 29 July 1987 up until the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, 134,053 Sri Lankan Tamils arrived in India. The first repatriation took place after the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord in 1987 and between 24 December 1987 and 31 August ...
Primary and secondary education is free in Sri Lanka and is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Governments. Undergraduate education in state universities are free, but limited to less than 10% of the student population.