Accelerated development programme for Agalawatta

The principle of equilateral development contained in the Mahinda Chintana concept should be adopted in the development of under-developed areas, said Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe.

Minister Samarasinghe who has been appointed Chairman of the Development Co-ordination Committee of the Agalawatta electorate by the President to review all development activities taking place in the three divisional secretariat divisions of Agalawatta, Palindanuwara and Walallawita said so when he opened his co-odrinating office at Agalawatta recently.

Samarasinghe said Agalawatta which was the largest electorate in Kalutara district had many shortcomings which had to be attended to. He hoped to launch an accelerated development programme to remedy those shortcomings on a planned basis by identifying priority areas.

Lack of a Cabinet Minister for overall supervision of Government development activities in the Electorate had been a major shortcomings for a long time.

The President had remedied this shortcomings by appointing him (Samarasinghe) as Chairman of the Development Co-ordinating Committee of Agalawatta and he would fulfil the trust placed by the President on him by launching an accelerated development scheme in Agalawatta on poor with other electorates in the country on.