City development project launched

Nimal Wijesinghe - Anuradhapura Additional District group correspondent

The Anuradhapura Urban Council has embarked on a Pivithuru Purawaraya (Clean City) city development programme, with the aim of creating a pleasant and environment friendly locality. The project, a brain child of Mayor H.P. Somadasa is sponsored and supervised by the Sakthi Volunteer Organization.

Mayor Somadasa said that the main objective of the project was to mould an awakened and healthy city community, projecting the city's natural resources and eradicating diseases carrying mosquitoes.

It has been planned to create awareness among the 900 family units dwelling within the city limits, on the themes of environment preservation, cleanliness, beautification, tree planting, garbage management and home gardening.

A steering committee with the active participation of Divisional Secretaries, the Police Environmental Unit and the 15 Grama Niladaris of the UC jurisdictions will be appointed to spearhead the Pivithuru Purawaraya venture. Somadasa explained that this move would help immensely to save the major reservoirs such as Tisawewa and Nuwara Wewa, which supply drinking water to a 150,000 city population, threatened with large scale contamination.