Udu Nuwara, Yati Nuwara worst hit by rain

Chamikara WEERASINGHE

The Udu Nuwara and Yati Nuwara areas of Kandy is reportedly the worst hit areas of floods and heavy rains experienced in various parts of the country with over forty houses devastated and twenty nine partly damaged. Forty people were reported displaced by the floods.

Assistant Director Disaster Management Centre Pradeep Kodippili on Thursday said, they have been instructed by Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe to provide the affected with emergency relief supplies.

The Disaster Management Centre has requested 2,000 roofing sheets from the Ministry to be given to the affected to temporarily settle in their partly damaged houses.

It is working closely with the Disaster Relief Services Ministry's relief centres and divisional secretariats of the affected districts to provide the flood victims with their basic food and other needs, Kodippili said..

We were able to introduce an Emergency Relief Supply Scheme to help the affected and the displaced with basic provisions by on Thursday, said the Assistant Director.

More than 58,041 persons have been affected by the floods. Of them 46,041 are from Colombo, 8570 from Kalutara, 3,185 from Gampaha, and 225 from Kandy , sources at the Disaster Management Centre said.