July 27, Chennai: A senior official of India's Ministry of External Affairs will visit Sri Lanka to assess the progress of the resettlement and rehabilitation process of Tamils in Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern Province, an Indian media report said.

India's English daily The Hindu reported that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a letter has informed the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi of the measure to send the Ministry official to Sri Lanka.

In the letter dated July 22, the Prime Minister has said that the Ministry official would India's High Commissioner in Sri Lankan and local authorities.

"The move to send the official was a measure of our continuing interest and the importance that we attach to this issue," Prime Minister Singh has written to the Chief Minister.

Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister earlier urging the central government to do more to restore the lives of the displaced Tamil people in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.