Good roads essential for development - Economic Development
Minister
S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy South Group Corr
Every electorate in the Central Province will be developed and 25
kilometres of roads will be carpeted initially.
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Minister
basil Rajapaksa |
‘Good roads are essential for economic development as then only
produce could be transported quickly, cheaply and safely, Economic
Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa said.
He made these observations when he inaugurated the carpetting of the
Hunnasgiriya-Bambarabedda rural roads of seven kilometres distance at a
meeting held in Hunnasiriya town.
Minister Rajapaksa said that in the past the people had been often
cheated by politicians who make false promises just to please the people
but this situation has been changed. After 2005 the government under the
leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa did not resort to making false
promises. They kept to their promises.
The Mahinda Chinthanaya envisages the country’s vast development by
building roads, bridges, water schemes, harbours, air ports and
electrification schemes. ‘People could see for themselves that these
promises have been kept’, he said. Rajapaksa said that Central province
Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake is an indefatigable worker under whose
guidance the province has seen much progress.
The 30-year war has come to an end and we must now think in terms of
developing the country to make it a model in Asia. We are confident that
this goal could be achieved.
Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake said that a sum of Rs 743 lakhs has
been allocated for the Hunnasigirya – Bambarabedda road development and
once it is completed the farmers in the area will not have any
difficulty in bringing their produce to town and from there it could be
transported to various parts of the island.
Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake tracing the past history of the
country said when King Dutugemunu was engaged in war with King Elara to
free the country of invaders, he entrusted the task of growing more food
for the sustenance of the people to his brother Prince Saddha Tissa. |
