Pavatkulam to be rehabilitated

Anura Maitipe

The re-awakening project launched under the Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure Development Ministry has taken the initiative to rehabilitate Pavatkulam in the Vavuniya district at a cost of Rs 50 million with World Bank financial assistance.

Project Director P. H. Sugathadasa said this is a major irrigation scheme in the Vavuniya district with a capacity of 27,000 acre feet. It will provide irrigation facilities for over 4,134 acres of paddy land in the area.

The rehabilitation of this tank had been neglected for a long period due to the war situation in the area for the past three decades. Canals, sluice and the dam tank’s have been damaged due to the non-implementation of rehabilitation work for a long period, sources said.

The tank will be re-constructed under the ongoing rehabilitation process.

Over 3,300 families in the Vavuniya district will benefit with the completion of this project.