Ampara to plant 120,000 trees

MA Phakurdeen - Addalaichenai group corr

Ampara Government Agent Sunil Kannangara has organized a series of programs in Ampara District to plant 120,000 plants in every Divisional Secretariat to mark President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s second swearing in ceremony.

Ampara Kachcheri, Divisional Secretariats, Hospitals, Schools, Pradeshiya Sabhas and all other Government departments have organized their own program to plant trees to mark the event. The main ceremony of the day in Ampara will take place at Ampara DS Senenayake Maha Vidyalaya today where Government Agent Sunil Kannangara will participate as Chief Guest and inaugurate the program by planting a tree sapling.

All development programs in the Ampara District will also inaugurated in several parts of the District on November 20 and Buddhist religious observances have organized in the Buddhist temples on the day to invok blessings on President Mahinda Rajapaksa Meanwhile Mosques and Hindu temples too have organized several religious observances for President Rajapaksa.

Government Agent Kannangara has requested the public to participate in the shramadana campaigns launched at the “Gama Neguma” development program in the District which has been scheduled from November 15 to 19.

A mass tree planting program will be launched at the Oluwil Campus at the South Eastern University today under the patronage of its Vice-Chancellor Dr. SM Mohamed Ismail to mark President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s second swearing ceremony where one thousand plants are to be planted in the University.

Deans of all Faculties, Heads of Departments, Lectures, students and nonacademic Staff of the University will participate in this event where religious observances too would be the important feature of the program.

Meanwhile, the Road Development Authority Officials in Akkaraipattu have organized religious observances at their office premises where Moulavis will participate in the recital of “Special Thuwa” on Friday November 19. Additional Provincial Director RDA Eng. AL M. Nizer told the Daily News that his officials have made all arrangements to distribute lunch packets to the poor in the vicinity also would be distributed on the day.