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Twenty six villages in the Hambantota district will be developed under the Jathika Saviya, Gama Neguma programme, Southern Development Authority (SDA) District Director Hambantota, Kapila Masakorala said. He was addressing a meting that followed the inauguration of the construction work of housing schemes for lower income group families at Palathuduwa and Thalunna villages in Tangalle DS area. He said those living in temporary houses will be awarded Rs. 100,000 each to build houses. In the meantime, unemployed youth will be awarded tool kits and apparatus to begin self employment.
The Kuwait government is to finance the Kalu Ganga Development Project which aims to develop and inject into the Mahaweli irrigation systems the untapped water resources of Kalu Ganga. President Mahinda Rajapaksa as Minister of Finance and Planning is to enter into an agreement with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development to obtain a loan amounting to 10 million Kuwait Dinars (approximately US$ 37million) to finance the Kalu Ganga Development Project. The project will be implemented by the Mahaweli Authority under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Services.
The Supreme Court today issued a warrant against a Buddhist monk from Rajagiriya when a fundamental rights violation petition in respect of noise pollution was taken up. The Court directed the Officer-in-Charge of the Rajagiriya Police Station to arrest the priest and remand him till September 15 and produce him on that day before the court as he was not present in court today despite of the notice issued by the court on him.
A programme to provide electricity to 58 villages in 20 divisional secretariat areas in Galle, Matara and Hambantota districts has been launched by the Southern Provincial Ministry of Power and Energy. Arrangements have already been made to install transformers in 14 villages to extend the power supply. Funds amounting Rs. 29.5 million have been reserved to implement rural electrification schemes in the Galle district, Rs. 24 million for the Matara district and Rs. 18 million for the Hambantota district under the programme, Ceylon Electricity Board sources said.
The Health service in Sri Lanka is considerably better than in Russia despite considerably higher incomes in Russia than Sri Lanka, said Sir Michael Marmott, Professor Epidemiology and Public Health who chaired the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. He was speaking at the launch of the new report on health situation in all countries. The report was prepared by the World Health Organisation. Sir Marmott said Sri Lanka was among the countries which had better health facilities than some countries with higher incomes.
In Sri Lanka nearly 120 elephants are killed by humans and in return about 65 people die after being attacked by elephants every year. The number of cases of elephants being killed or run over by trains could be reduced if the train staff take precautions by giving the elephants enough warning in advance when they spot the elephants close to the rail tracks, Managing Trustee of the Bio Diversity and Elephant Conservation Trust and leading expert on Asian elephants and former planter Jayantha Jayawardena said.
An estimated sum of Rs. 10,400 million has been allocated by the Government for three major irrigation projects for Wayamba, Southern and Eastern Provinces which are at present under way. It is expected to successfully complete these major irrigational projects at the end of 2010. Under this massive irrigational development projects the Deduru-Oya scheme for Wayamba, the Rambaken-Oya scheme for the East and the Menik-Ganga scheme for south will be irrigated.
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa will launch a project this morning to popularize bio manure. The inauguration of the district level project
Government of the United Kingdom has come forward to help the Government of Sri Lanka to build 7 flyovers and 54 bridges around the country. The first of these flyovers was the recently opened Kelaniya flyover. Other locations for such measures will include Kohuwala, Armour Street, Lotus junction in front of Hilton Colombo, Chatham Street, Bastian Mawatha, Dehiwala Junction, and several other traffic prone areas. Each flyover will be 300 meters long and cost about 1 billion rupees. It will take 6 months to complete the construction.
Supermarkets in Sri Lanka pitch in to eradicate plastic menace supermarkets in Sri Lanka have come together to discourage the use of plastic shopping bags. As part of a three-phase environmental campaign, they have joined hands with the Central Environmental Authority (cea) and introduced eco-friendly shopping bags, mostly made of jute, at a nominal rate. The bags are being made available
