Harassed Indian investor pulls at the heartstrings of Sri Lankan patients

Despite having been subject to much harassment at the hands of two government higher officials when he visited Sri Lanka to make a huge investment in the Kantale Sugar Factory few years ago, the Indian investor from Bengaluru, K. P. Nagaraja still remains in the country helping out to bring a smile to the faces of children who are suffering from complicated heart conditions and congenital heart diseases.

- By Nirmala Kannangara

The Indian Investor, who made a complaint to the Bribery Commission a few years ago against the then President's Chief of Staff and a former Chairman of a State Institution for soliciting a bribe to hand over him the Kantale Sugar Factory, its land and equipment despite having cabinet approval, has come forward to help the needy children. These children will be helped to undergo heart surgeries free of charge at Amrita Hospital in Kochi, India; this hospital is a renowned Pediatric Cardiac hospital.

With the assistance of Global Grant Project of Rotary International together with the Rotary Club of Colombo West and Rotary Club of Kochi West, 140 heart surgeries have been performed on Sri Lankan childrenfrom infants to 15 year old children since 2018 to date.

Nagaraja, who is the brain child of ‘Save a Kid's Life’, is the force behind all success of this project. He is the President of Rotary Club of Colombo West for 2025/ 26.

“By the time I joined the Rotary Club of Colombo West in 2017, they were getting these pediatric cardiac operations locally. Then I got the Rotary Club of Kochi West involved in this project and got the Global Grant Project to help this meritorious deed financially. I am the main coordinator in this and happy to see how the project has succeeded so far,” K.P. Nagaraja said,

According to him, before he could get involved with the Rotary Club of Kochi West and the Global Grant Project, he was able to coordinate with the Amrita Hospital, and was able to send five Sri Lankan children to India to get their heart operations done free of charge.