|
Quick Look
TSHDA to assist tea re-cultivation
Mahaweli Systems corr.
The Tea Small Holding Development Authority (TSHDA) will assist 1,000
families of tea growing areas of the Central Province to replant tea
cultivations.
The authority will pick the beneficiary families with the help of the
field offices and tea growers' societies.
They are entitled to receive financial aids, quality tea plants,
fertilizers at reduced prices and farm implements.
Samurdhi Authority to build houses
M.A.R. Manukulasooriya Hiriyala group correspondent
The Samurdhi Authority will build 360 houses in the Kurunegala
district under the Samurdhi Diriya Piyasa program.
The estimated cost of the project is Rs. 26 million. 87 houses for
war hero families will also be built at a cost of Rs. 2.5 million.
Cashew villages to be set up
Hiriyala group correspondent
The Rural Industries and Self Employment Promotion Ministry will set
up five Cashew production villages in the Nikaweratiya electorate.
Palugolla, Nawana and Godayaya villages in the Kotawehera D.S.
division, Unagolla village in the Rasnayakapura D.S. division and
Walpothuwewewa village in the Kobeigane D.S. division have been selected
for this.
The main objective of setting up these villages is to provide
employment to unemployed rural youth.
Reservoirs’ water polluted
Matale district group corr.
The major reservoirs fed by Mahaweli water in Matale have been
polluted due to the discarding of the waste by tourists.
They are discarding polythene, plastic and other waste, while during
the rainy season all waste, dumped on the tank bunds, flows to the
reservoirs. Polluted water of these reservoirs are flowing up to
Tisawewa in Anuradhapura passing several major tanks.
Plea to reduce Samurdhi housing loan interest
The All Island Samurdhi Development and Agricultural Research
Production Assistants Officer Society, in a memorandum addressed to
President Mahinda Rajapaksa requested that the present 18 percent
interest rate levied on Samurdhi Housing loans too should be reduced to
8 percent on par with the recent announcement of reduction of State bank
interest rates.
The letter further says, our society appreciates the decision taken
by the President to reduce the interest rates levied by State banks in
the interest of the country and the people.
We are also mindful of your intervention earlier which saw the
reduction of interest rates on Samurdhi loans.
In this context, we are also of the opinion that the interest rate
levied on Samurdhi housing loan of Rs. 30,000 obtained by the Samurdhi
beneficiaries who have deposited money in as small as Rs. 5 and 10 at
nearly 1,039 Samurdhi banks are highly exorbitant.
Ruhunu Viskam in Galle
Ruhunu Viskam, Southern Province Handicraft Exhibition will be held
from November 5-7, 2009 at the Galle Town Hall under the patronage of SP
Governor Kumari Balasuriya and SP Chief Minister Shan Wijayalal de
Silva.
Book launch and lecture
The Sinhala translation of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital (Pragdhanaya) will
be introduced to the Central Province readers at a meeting to be held at
the E.L. Senanayake Auditorium of the D.S. Senanayake Library, Kandy on
November 6 at 3.30 p.m. Veteran writer and literary critic W.A.
Abeysinghe will deliver a lecture on “Why modern readers are reading
Marx again?” at the occasion.
SPC's inaugural meeting on Nov 5
Mahinda P.Liyanage Galle Central Special corr
The inaugural meeting of the sixth Southern Provincial Council will
be held on November 5 at the Council's meeting hall at Kalegana, Galle
commencing at 9.30 am. The meeting has been convened by the Secretary of
the Council K.L. Dayananda following notice given by Southern Province
Governor Kumari Balasooriya for the purpose.
According to the agenda it is scheduled to elect a Chairman and a
Deputy Chairman for the Council after reading the Governor's official
announcement convening the meeting. |
