The above chart depicts the 13,000
cubic meters (30%) of unbilled water in Kandy per day. >>
Further
Lapses in Kandy Water Billing Come to Light
The ongoing investigation
that The Kandy News has been conducting of the management
by the KMC of its collection of water tariffs from consumers
reveals that only about 25,000 (68%) of the total of 37,000
water supply connections actually get billed for payment.
This is stated in a report that the Water Engineer of the
Council Mr. P B. Abeykoon has submitted to the Council.
The Report also states that the Council supplies approximately
34,000 cubic meters of water per day. But payments are collected
only for about 21,000 cm (62%). Read
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Public
Cooperation Lacking to Avoid Earth Slip Disasters
Says Kandy GA
Kandy Government Agent
(GA) Mr., Ghotabhaya Jayaratne in an exclusive interview
with The Kandy News said that public cooperation was not
forthcoming to avoid earth slip disasters. He made this
comment in the context of the several earth slips that occurred
recently in the Kandy District during the unusually heavy
rains. The earth slips have claimed about ten lives and
displaced about 1,000 people and caused extensive damage
to residential and commercial property. Read
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Jayaratne
Promotes Small Industry in Kandy District
Minister D M Jayaratne says
that the Ministry of Rural Economic Development is implementing
a program to assist rural small industries. Under this
program 43 industrialists engaged in dairy farming, mushroom
cultivation, cut flower production and cultivation of
ornamental plants have been assisted to the tune of Rs
100m the minister added. The ministry is giving priority
to female owned and managed enterprises and cottage industries
under this program.
Minister D M Jayaratne
JVP
Accuses Fellow Politicians of Undermining Mahaweli Reservoirs
Politicians using their
power and influence have taken over government-owned protected
highlands in the Mahaweli catchment area and imperiled the Mahaweli
reservoirs such as Kothmale and Victoria. Two JVP members of
the Central Provincial Council G B Dissanayake and Sunil Wickremasinghe
have made this allegation against their fellow politicians of
all colours and all levels in a resolution that they have presented
for consideration to the Council. More>>
A news report elsewhere in this
edition of The Kandy News reveals that the affable and hardworking
Chief Minister of the Central Province Sarath Ekanayake
has announced that a “Greater Kandy Development Program”
is to be prepared under the direction of President Mahinda
Rajapakse. This newspaper has always supported an actionable
plan or program of development for Kandy and will strongly
support any good that comes out of this latest effort.
The Kandy News in the thirteen years it has been around
has witnessed more than one such Plan. In fact about ten
years ago we even helped organize a workshop on the Greater
Kandy Development Plan also known as the “Bualnkulama”
Plan. At the workshop we listened to grand speeches from
politicians and key officials who promised to make Kandy
a model city second to none.
Perhaps with the exception of a
few things such as the Kandy Car Park, a link road from
Bogambara to the Lake Round Road and the Wholesale Fresh
Produce Market in Katugastota nothing much happened. But
some of these pre-dated the Bulankulama Plan and had little
or nothing to do with it.
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