Office complex for Digana Sports Stadium

S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen Kandy Sports Correspondent

In keeping with the policies of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to develop sports in the Provinces, the foundation stone for the construction of the office-complex for the Digana Sports Stadium will take place on (Thursday) October 1 at 11 a.m. at Rajawella.

The foundation stone will be laid by the Chief Minister of Central Province Sarath Ekanayake at the invitation of Central Provincial Council Members Sunil Amaratunga, R.G. Samaranayake and T.R. Linton Wijesinghe.

Also participating at this ceremony will be Central Province Minister of sports Velusamy Radhakrishnan.

The Digana Sports Complex will be the biggest sports complex in the Central Province with facilities to play soccer, volleyball, netball, with a 400 metre track and a swimming pool will be added on later.

The ground has been levelled by cutting a mound and the planting of grass will be done later.

Located in the mid country dry zone, this region experiences lesser rain than the hill capital. This sports Complex will also serve the sportsmen and sportswomen of Udadumbara and Patha Dumbara in a big way and is only 16 kilometres from Kandy and not far away from the Pallekelle Cricket Stadium owned by Sri Lanka Cricket.