Local inventions will be used for Janasevana housing programme -Wimal

Ishara MUDUGAMUWA

The two inventors, Nishan Dhammika and Sryakantha Dissanayke of Dambulla Technical College. (Right): The sand sieving machine.

The contribution of local inventors' will be used for the Janasevana housing programme, said Construction Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa.

Minister Weerawansa recently met two inventors, Nishan Dhammika and Sryakantha Dissanayke of Dambulla Technical College who invented a new sand sieving machine and Technical Skills Instructor of Mawanella Education Zone Jayathilake Bandara who invented roofing tiles made of bamboo trees.

At the discussion held with the new inventors, Minister Weerawansa said with the use of the new inventions for the Janasevana housing programme, they will be able to sharpen their skills for the good of the country.

They can make a major contribution to the country's development.

The minister promised to extend the fullest support of the Ministry for the new inventors and their inventions. State Engineering Corporation chairman Jagath Kumara Perera, ICTAD chairman Udula Bandra Ausadahamy and NHDA General Manager Mahinda Mudalige also participated.