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The Mahaweli Development program (Sinhala: මහවැලි සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන) is known as the largest multipurpose national development program in the history of Sri Lanka and is also considered the keystone of the government's development program that was initiated in 1961.
The Mahaweli Authority and the military resumed activities to bring in landless Sinhalese settlers from the southern parts of the country to settle in and around Weli Oya. [2] Despite ongoing displacement of thousands of Tamils from their land and homes, the Mahaweli Authority, under successive governments since the end of the war, continues to ...
Mahaweli Authority is a state-owned operator in Sri Lanka for managing the Mahaweli River and its projects. It was established in 1979. [2]The primary objective of the Mahaweli Authority is to implement the Mahaweli River development scheme.
Hydroelectricity accounts for nearly half of the installed power capacity of Sri Lanka. The following page lists most dams in Sri Lanka.Most of these dams are governed by the Mahaweli Authority, while the Ceylon Electricity Board operates dams used for hydroelectric power generation.
The development of the Kalu Ganga segment was supposed to cost US$167 million. 22% or US$37 million of this was funded by the Kuwait Fund, 27.5% or US$46 million was funded by the Saudi Fund for Development, while the rest was borne by the Government of Sri Lanka. The funds will be payable in 20 years, including a 5-year grace period. [7]
Settlements in the Manal Aru began in 1984 as a dry zone farmer colony under the land Commission, but it was later acquired by the Sri Lanka Mahaweli Economic Agency in 1988 and declared as the Mahaweli ‘L’ zone. [2] The land was officially renamed Weli Oya on April 16, 1988.