'Deyata Kirula will develop remote areas'

Next exhibition in Oyamaduwa:

Chaminda PERERA

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that the Deyata Kirula national development exhibition will help bring dividends of development to less developed areas in the country.

He said that the objective of holding the Deyata Kirula exhibition outside Colombo is to bring dividends of development to areas which had no development benefits for decades.

The President was of the view that this exhibition which is to be held at Oyamaduwa in Anuradhapura should be planned in a way that would benefit all Divisional Secretariat Divisions in the district.

President Rajapaksa was addressing political leaders in the North Central Province and ministry Secretaries at Temple Trees regarding the Deyata Kirula exhibition which is to be held in Oyamaduwa, Anuradhapura next year.

They discussed the development programmes that would have to be implemented in the province parallel to this mega exhibition. Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said that this type of national event has never been held in Oyamaduwa in the past.

The minister added that a number of programmes would be implemented in the Anuradhapura district to develop infrastructure facilities and human resources under the exhibition. Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga said they have focused on providing facilities to a school library in every Divisional Secretariat in the district.

Weeratunga said schools where libraries are to be developed under this programme, would be selected in due course.

NCP Governor Karunarathne Divulgane, Chief Minister Berty Premalal Dissanayake, Child Development and Welfare Minister Tissa Karaliyadde, Chief of Defence Staff Roshan Gunathilake, Service Commanders and ministry secretaries were present.