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by P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya Minister for Western Regional Development M. H. Mohamed said he was able to get financial aid from the Chinese Government to construct 15,000 houses, and the agreement will be signed in due course between the Chinese government and the Sri Lankan government. Nuwara Eliya city too will be benefitted under this scheme. Minister Mohamed was addressing a gathering which followed the opening of a new bus stand for Nuwara Eliya at a cost of Rs. 70 million on Saturday here. Minister Mohamed said in 1970, he laid the foundation for the earlier bus stand and was happy and it was a coincidence to be able to open the modern bus stand which he said was an urgent need for a growing city like Nuwara Eliya, its commuters and the general public. The new bus stand and has 53 shopping arcades and will cost another Rs. 20 million to complete. Answering the various complements and tributes by Deputy Ministers and Members of Parliament present at the function, Minister Mohamed said his success to having a long political career was that he discharged his duties and obligations as a politicians with a clear mind as a representative of the people of all communities without parochial thinking and political attachments. He reminded those politicians and others that their success will depend solely on such principles. He said the moment they were elected to office, they must think to serve all communities alike. He said a country should first be fully developed in all spheres and the cardinal requirement was unity and peace. Hence, he appealed to the masses to work and dedicate themselves towards achieving that goal. He said that Nuwara Eliya should be further developed since the city is patronised by foreign and local holiday crowds. Programme and policies have already been formulated towards achieving such a goal. Deputy Minister Navin Dissanayake, said his late father Gamini Dissanayake took the initiative to develop Nuwara Eliya into a modern city with various schemes and one of which was a modern bus stand. Mayor of Nuwara Eliya Chandana Karunaratne who outlined the ongoing development phases for Nuwara Eliya city thanked the Minister of his ambitious programmes of work. Deputy Minister Muthu Sivalingam said Nuwara Eliya figured as the 'Little England' in the past and now it has progressively turned into a garbage city in the country, which needed quick changes. S. Sathasivam MP complained to the Minister that those who suffered in the 1983 riots and who were displaced have been overlooked in the allocation of shops and the details have already been given. Those people should be given priority. K. V. Dharmasena, Director General of the Urban Development Authority, said the UDA with its legal obligations has to work towards the progress and development perspectives, and called upon the local authorities and the people to co-operate with them towards achieving such a task. Messrs K. K. Piyadasa MP, Gunasinghe Suriyaperuma (Member of the Central Provincial Council of the PA) and several others also spoke. |
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