Kandy residents may soon see their garbage piling up as the KMC stops collecting it because it has no place to dump it. This may soon become a reality if the Harispattuwa Pradesheeya Sabha (PS) goes to court and gets an order to stop the KMC from dumping the solid waste that it collects from the municipal area at the landfill in Gohagoda. A resolution to go to courts that Harispattuwa PS member Sanjeewa Kurunduwatta (PA) proposed at its recent monthly meeting was unanimously adopted with both government and opposition members voting for it.

The Gohagoda land which is 32 acres in extent has served as the Kandy solid waste disposal ground since 1977 when the KMC stopped using its Nittawela facility. Read More>>

The Chief Minister of the Central Provincial Council and the Kandy Mayor L B Aluvihare recently met to discuss the problems that the Kandy Municipal Council (KMC) was facing. All the members of the KMC were also present.

Mayor Aluvihare told The Kandy News that he was hopeful that the discussion would help find solutions to some of the urgent problems that the Council was currently facing. The subjects discussed included solid waste disposal, the cut in the salary subsidy that the central government provides the KMC, the freeze on recruitment of workers to the KMC and the non-payment of rates and water bills by state agencies and government departments.