People with entrepreneurial skills to engage in income generating activities

ARIYAPALA WANSATHILAKE Kurunegala central special corr

The Government has developed 341 Grama Niladari Divisions, and completed 114 projects in the North Western Province todate, Minister of Rural Industries and Self Employment Promotion S. B. Navinna said at the DDC meeting in the Kurunegala District Secretariat auditorium.

Minister Navinna said he hoped to select groups of people with entrepreneurial skills from poor families and encourage them to engage in income generating activities in the North Western Province. Under the Mahinda Chinthana programme, we stored eighty per cent of drinking water, irrigation, health facilities, electricity and agricultural facilities for the rural areas.

The Asian Development Bank has decided to launch a sustainable maintenance programme in Wayamba. This project is entrusted the responsibility of implementing a pilot project of this nature in the NWP with the assistance of the Asian Development Bank.