Meesalai station back on track

Dharma SRI ABEYRATNE

In line with the ongoing rapid development process in the Northern and the Eastern areas, the Central Provincial Council will reconstruct the Meesalai railway station.

The railway station was destroyed due to terrorist activities of the LTTE during the thirty-year terror period. Even the railway lines had been taken away by terrorists to make bunkers.

Therefore the railway track has to be reconstructed from Thandikulum to KKS.

The railway track is being reconstructed upto KKS at the moment. The Government earlier sought assistance of institutions such as Provincial Councils to renovate railway stations.

Accordingly, the Central Provincial Council will construct Meesalai railway station at a cost of around Rs. 10 million. However the Government or the Provincial Council will not spend any money as the entire expenditure will be allocated by the Chief Minister's Fund from donations of businessmen, government servants in the Central Province and the public who contribute to the construction process. It has been planned to complete the construction within an eight month period.

The designing process of the Meesalai station will be completed by the next two weeks.

"The station will be designed to showcase the historic Kandian architecture. More facilities will be available than earlier.

All the people in the province are eager to assist this program voluntarily since this is an ideal opportunity to strengthen ties between the North and South," Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake said.