Minister assures help for Chunnakam development

CHUNNAKAM: A team of representatives from Chunnakam Urban Development Committee met Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare Douglas Devananda who is also the Chairman of Jaffna and Kilinochchi District Development Committee to discuss development activities to be launched in Chunnakam. A petition signed by more than thousand people in this regard too was handed over to the Minister.

They had requested the Minister to take necessary steps for re-erection of the Chunnakam Post Office which is more than hundred years old and requested to allot additional land to the post office premises.

They had also requested to handover the activities of the potable water distribution which is now under the Water Supply and Drainage Board back to the Pradeshiya Sabha. A request was made to issue a commemorative stamp to remember late K. C. Nithyananda, who was a prominent union leader.

Having accepted the written demands made by the Chunnakam Urban Development Committee, the Minister said that he would direct his attention to the matters raised there-in for discussion with the relevant authorities. Regarding the Development of Chunnakam town he said that he would bring it to the attention of the President.