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Garden cleaning drive

Gamini Samaranayake Kandy Roving Correspondent

Civil Defence Associations in Pathadumbara (Wattegama), Panwila, Menikhinna and Katugastota conducted mass Shramadana campaigns.

Students of Wattegama Central College, Walala A. Rathnayake National School, Wattegama Balika Maha Vidyalaya and Madawala Madeena Central College with their staff engaged in cleaning their school premises and gardens.

Residents in Madawala Bazaar and Menikhinna Town cleaned the drainages and the surrounding areas.

Scholarships to minimize school dropouts

Arrangements have been made to help in the education of students of Samurdhi beneficiary families. Those studying the GCE Advanced Level, in the Grama Seva Divisions under the Kalmunai Divisional Secretariat Division will be targeted.

Action has been taken to help selected students from Samurdhi beneficiary families under the Sisu Diriya.

Death of Caroline Anthonypillai

Caroline Anthonypillai (102), a pioneer of the Left movement in Sri Lanka and a veteran Trade Unionist in India passed away. She is the wife of late Tony Anthonypillai, former Member of the Lok Sabha and the daughter of Don J. Rupasinghe Gunawardena (Boralugoda Ralahamy) and sister of former Minister late Philip Gunawardena.

The funeral will take place at the Avissawella General Cemetery on Wednesday, July 8 at 6 p.m. Cortege will leave residence 501, Werellamandiya, Alubodhala, Kosgama at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

India allocates US $100m for IDPs

The Indian Government on Monday set aside Rs 500 crore (100 million US Dollars) for rehabilitation of the Internally Displaced Persons and reconstruction of areas in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka devastated by the war against the LTTE.

Presenting the Union Budget for the year 2009/10 in the Lok Sabha, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the UPA Government is committed to ensuring that the Sri Lankan Tamils enjoy their rights and legitimate aspirations within the territorial sovereignty and framework of the country’s constitution, The Hindu reported yesterday.

Mukherjee said the External Affairs Ministry was working closely with Sri Lankan Government to ensure the rehabilitation of the displaced people.

New Delhi (PTI)

One dead, five injured in crash at Vavuniya

One Police Constable was killed and another five injured when Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services Minister Rishad Bathiudeen’s backup vehicle skidded off the road and crashed into a lamp post at Ganeshapuram, Vavuniya last evening.

The Minister was in the vehicle which came behind the backup vehicle. When the accident took place, the Minister who had attended a discussion held at the Vavuniya District Secretariat was on his way for an inspection tour of the Menik Farm relief centre at Settikulam.

Police Constable Ranawaka died on the spot while the five injured security guards were admitted to the Vavuniya Hospital.

Settikulam Police is conducting further investigations.

Garden cleaning drive

Gamini Samaranayake Kandy Roving Corr.

Civil Defence Associations in Pathadumbara (Wattegama), Panwila, Menikhinna and Katugastota conducted mass shramadana campaigns.

Students of Wattegama Central College, Walala A. Rathnayake National School, Wattegama Balika Maha Vidyalaya and Madawala Madeena Central College with their staff wrer engaged in cleaning their school premises and gardens.

Residents in Madawala Bazaar and Menikhinna Town cleaned the drainages.

Max TV on Dialog TV

Max Television will enter into an agreement with Dialog TV on July 9 at 8 a.m. at M.G.M. Tower, Nugegoda to telecast Max TV on Dialog TV.

Lecture

A lecture on Quality Management and Quality Control - S5 by Retired Training Consultant of the Sri Lanka Air Force and veteran Lecturer on Quality Standards E.J. Wasantha will be held on July 10 from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo. It is sponsored by the Walker and Sons Company.

Rocky path for Wildlife officers

Raja Waidyasekera Tissamaharama special corr

Wildlife officials at Weerawila in Tissamaharama are facing immense difficulties due to lack of travel facilities.

They have only one bicycle and a motorbike to travel to various sites.

The Wildlife Department provides a Rs. 1,500 fuel allocation per month.