Mega power project to provide electricity to Ratnapura

RATNAPURA: The Government will soon implement a mega power project at a cost of Rs.5000 million to provide electricity to every household in the Ratnapura District, Power and Energy Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne disclosed.

The Senevigama Housing Scheme in the Veligepola Divisional Secretariat Division of the Rakwana Electorate, Ratnapura District, built at Rs.2.5 million under the Jana Sevana Housing Programme of the Ministry of Housing Development was vested in the people at a ceremony held under the auspices of Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne recently.

Senevigama Housing Scheme was implemented under the financial and technological patronage of the National Housing Development Authority.

Thirty poor families in the Ratnapura District were provided with housing together with 80 perches of land for each beneficiary.

Addressing the ceremony, Minister Seneviratne said though Ratnapura is reckoned as the land of jewels, majority of its inhabitants live under poor living standards and without adequate infrastructure facilities.

Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council Member Anura Alagiyawanna, Agriculture and Livestock Resources Minister Ranjith de Soysa and Veligepola Divisional Secretary Chitra Kottewatta were present.