Water project for Kaluarachchiyagama

Nimal WIJESINGHE-Anuradhapura additional district group corr

The villagers in Kaluarachchiyagama in the Nachchaduwa Divisional Secretariat Division who have been suffering from an acute shortage of drinking water will now be provided water under the Thuruwila water supply project.

Parliamentarian Shehan Semasinghe and Provincial Cooperative Minister H. B. Semasinghe have initiated the implementation of the water supply project where construction work inaugurated recently.

Pipes will be laid in around 20 kilometres from the Thuruwila water project. The estimated expenditure for the project is Rs. 10 million.

"Thuruwila water supply project was planned 12 years ago. With President Mahinda Rajapaksa's intervention this project is now inaugurated. The people of the area were earlier required to travel about 8 kilometres in search of water sources," Semasinghe said at the inauguration.

Provincial Cooperative Minister and Anuradhapura (East) SLFP Chief Organizer H. B. Semasinghe praised the media for highlighting the plight of the Kaluarachchiyagama villagers who were suffering without water.

Nuwaragampalatha (East) Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Lal Sumith Kumara, Hidogama Police OIC Nishantha Kasthuriarachchi, WSDB Anuradhapura district engineer H. A. Jayasiri and construction engineer H. T. Perera were present.