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Environmental management, protection main
responsibilities:
Cleaner environment for development - CEA Chairman
Industrialization is booming in the country and
the CEA has a big role to play. Hence the CEA has given five main
areas to deal with. The first one is Environmental Assessment and
Management Division and it mainly does the Environmental Impact
Assessments (EIA). If you do any major project in Sri Lanka like
roads, ports, highways and dams, you need to get EIA for that, which
will be providing by CEA,
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Point of view
Referendum for separation in South Sudan
Washington, London, Tel Aviv conspiracy to break
up Sudan:
Sudan is blessed with such fertile lands that
once a prominent Sudanese Minister told me in Bahrain that his
country could produce the entire requirement of food for the whole
Middle East if only an oil rich Gulf country could invest around a
billion dollar.
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Not so random happenings
The saga of road misdemeanours seems to continue
regardless. Just last weekend, two buses collided head on, on the
Colombo-Hambantota Road at Kiula, close to where I live. The
villagers counted that about 50 passengers were badly hurt with
several loosing their limbs. Children, pregnant women, young and the
elderly among them, hospitals in Hambantota, Ambalantota and
Tangalle were all busy attending on these hapless victims. Attention
to other patients had to be put on hold.
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