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June 2011
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Kandy to Get Plenty of Water but Distribution Problems Prevent Drinking off the Tap

Infrastructure under construction With the completion of the Greater Kandy Water Supply Project (GKWSP) Phase I (Stage 2) next year, residents and business in the KMC area and several communities outside the KMC including those in Patha Dumbara, Gangawata Korale, Akurana, Pujapitiya, Harispattuwa, Kundasale and a part of Patha Hewaheta Divisional Secretariat area are assured of an adequate quantity of water supply. Water cuts will be a thing of the past.

Project Director Senior Engineer Mr. Sarath Gamini told The Kandy News that the entire project has been designed for three phases. Starting with a feasibility study in 1998, stage one of phase one was completed in 2006. Stage one helped add 11,500 new consumers to the then existing 250,000 in the KMC area. In the surrounding suburbs and village communities only 54,000 had piped water before stage one. In the last three years 65,000 new consumers have joined.
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A Cleaner Kandy Without “Care Clean”

KMC workers in action

There is a visible improvement in cleanliness in Kandy in recent weeks. Piles of uncollected garbage are not seen. The streets are cleaner as well. There is a big organizational change behind the new cleaner look of Kandy. KMC has taken over the job of cleaning Kandy from the private company Care Clean. This should surprise many who generally associate government agencies and workers with inefficiency and a poor work ethic and private sector with the opposite.

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Asia Foundation to help Kandy address monkey problem

KMC is in the process of finding a lasting and humane solution to the problem of monkeys in Kandy. As Kandy residents know these animals cause considerable damage to property and have become a public nuisance. In January a preliminary meeting was held to discus solutions to the problem. Members of the KMC, Council officials, representatives of central government agencies, academic experts, and representatives of the Chambers and other stakeholders were among those preset at the discussion. The Kandy Private-Public Dialogue (PPD) forum and KMC cosponsored the meeting. Read More>>

ODEL Opens in Kandy

ODEL CEO Otara Gunewardene cuts the ribbon to open the
Odel branch shop in the Kandy City Centre >>

Editorial

Private vs. Government

The triumph of the market over central planning and dirigisme economic regimes was accompanied by calls for privatization and outsourcing of services that government provided. The collapse of the Soviet Union and East European Communist regimes unsurprisingly got the most international attention in this momentous change. However, small Sri Lanka was a pioneer in this process when President J R Jayewardane created the “open” economy in late 1977. The Chinese under Deng and the British under Mrs. Thatcher did something similar about one year later and the rest is history. Three decades later and having experienced the worst economic crisis second only to the Great Depression of the 1930s the world is struggling to find the right balance between market and government. The current intense debate globally in the big league is about the degree of regulation that government should exercise over banks and other financial institutions. In US the merits and demerits of Industrial Policy divide the two major parties.