Newly concreted road in Maralanda GN division vested in people

SAJEEWA JAYAKODY

The first phase of the concreting of the Maralanda-Ahasyanapitiya road was completed and the newly-concreted road was vested it in the people by SLFP Chief Organiser, Health, Indigenous Medicine, Youth Affairs and Sports Minister of North Western Province Neranjan Wickremasinghe last Sunday.

This road was constructed by the Mawathagama Pradeshiya Sabha under the Jathika Saviya-Gama Neguma programme with a shramadana organised by the people in the Maralanda Grama Niladhari Division.

Chairman of the Mawathagama Pradeshiya Sabha Sanath Meegolla said that 209 such programmes are being conducted in 71 Grama Niladhari Divisions in the Mawathagama Pradeshiya Sabha but this is the first village which finished the work within a short period without any complaints.

Meegolla said the Government’s Jathika Saviya-Gama Neguma programme granted Rs. 247,000 for the first phase of this road construction which could have covered 184 feet but the dedication of the people of this village extended it beyond our expectations covering a distance of 260 feet.

“It’s a great pleasure to me to have motivated the grant of more funds to expedite further construction work of this road,” he said.

SLFP Chief Organiser for the Mawathagama electorate and Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine, Youth Affairs and Sports, North Western Provincial Council, Neranjan Wickremasinghe said: “I was very happy after inspecting the road construction done by the villagers under the guidance of the Grama Niladhari of Maralanda and I hope to grant Rs. one million to extend this road and finish the construction in future.”

Pradeshiya Sabha Member S. Illankoon, Mawathagama Divisional Secretary, Grama Niladhari Maralanda Division, OIC, Mawathagama Police, N.P.S. Jayalath also participated.