Twenty-eight young people from minority communities across Sri Lanka have completed a five-day leadership course in India, under a programme that allocates 700 training places a year to Sri Lankan professionals.
The course — Innovative Leadership for Organization Growth and Excellence (ILOGE) — ran from 21 to 25 September at the National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) in Noida, an institute of India’s Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
What was covered
Sessions dealt with innovative leadership, entrepreneurship and local economic development, self-leadership, design thinking, leadership styles, coaching and mentoring, emotional intelligence, climate leadership and community resilience.
Participants also drew up “Back Home Action Plans” — individual plans for applying what they learned within their own organisations and communities. The group made a study visit to Agra, including the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort.
Where the 700 slots come from
The annual allocation of customised training places stems from a commitment Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made during his state visit to Sri Lanka in April 2025, on capacity building and skills development. The September course was run under that arrangement.
This is a recurring programme, not a one-off
The same ILOGE course for Sri Lankan minority youth has run before: the Indian High Commission in Colombo published a release on an edition held 23 to 27 February 2026, under a near-identical title.
Readers and future reports should therefore identify this cohort by its dates (21–25 September 2026) and size (28 participants) rather than by the programme name, which repeats across intakes.
Caveats
The course ended six days before it was reported, and the account reads as an official release rather than independent reporting. No verified Sri Lankan newsroom had carried it at the time of writing, so this article rests on a single source.
Neither the selection process for participants, the communities they were drawn from, nor the cost and who met it is stated. “Minority youth” is not defined in the account.