Upcountry
Development Work Stalled
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Official
reports reveal that development work in the Upcountry
region seriously stalled in 2004. For example, the Kandy
District parliamentarians spent only Rs 10m of the Rs
60m that they were allocated for development spending.
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Kandy
New Water Scheme under construction at Gohagoda
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Gopallawa
Mawatha Traffic Lights |
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lights are being installed at the intersection of the approach
road from Bogambara and Gopallawa Mawatha near the Kandy Railway
Station. At the time of this writing they have not yet been
commissioned. Presumably the delay is until the KMC officials,
road engineers and the police carefully design the traffic flow
before switching on the lights. Read
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New
colour lights |
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Some
of the news items in this issue of The Kandy News highlight
yet again the fundamental question of who exactly runs Kandy.
Consider for example, the flap that has arisen between Mayor
Kesera Senanayake and his council on one side and property
developer Thusitha Wijesena on the other. The two parties
are accusing each other in public of various acts of omission
and commission. The mayor says that Mr. Wijesena has disregarded
KMC building regulations. The latter denies such accusations
and feels deeply aggrieved that his effort to contribute
something new and beneficial to the Kandy landscape is not
being appreciated.
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