On President's directive:

Road leading to Abaya tank to be renovated

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday directed Irrigation and Water Resources Management Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva to take early measures to renovate the road leading to the villages adjoining the Abaya tank by keeping with accepted standards . This road lies across the bund of the Abaya tank.

The President made this directive after having a conversation with the people in these villages while he was walking along this road as part of his daily physical exercise, yesterday morning. The villages told the President that the roads leading to the villages were in a dilapidated state.

They also told the President that school children are greatly inconvenienced and constantly fall sick due to heavy dust. On an earlier occasion, when First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa was passing the road, the villagers told her about this problem and the road was immediately renovated.

The villagers said that the person who undertook the road renovation contract at that time, had failed to meet the necessary standards and the road became dilapidated in less than a month.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa after taking their grievances into account, directed Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva to take early steps for the renovation of the road by keeping with accepted standards.