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Director General of Regional Development (Ministry of Policy Planning) Director of Integrated Rural Development Project of Matara District; Director General of Mahaweli Authority; Additional Director General of Southern Development Authority; Then Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa with senior civil servant Sirisena ...
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.
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 Ministry of Environment [2] (Sinhala: පරිසර අමාත්යාංශය; Tamil: சுற்றாடல் அமைச்சு) is the cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka with oversight of the environment and the Mahaweli Development programme, as well as the general development of the Mahaweli River, its environs and communities living within defined ...
After the defeat of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka Mahaweli Authority recommenced Sinhala colonisation in the Manal Aru area, as part of the Weli Oya project of the Mahaweli L-zone, [9] which covered the districts of Mullaitivu, Trincomalee, Vavuniya and Anuradhapura. [10]
Minister of Land, Irrigation and Mahaweli Development [22] [23] Gamini Atukorale: United National Party: 14 March 1991 [24] D. M. Jayaratne: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga: Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forestry Conservation [25] [26] Salinda Dissanayake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: Chandrika Kumaratunga
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 ...
The Kalu Ganga is a tributary of the Amban Ganga which in turn is a tributary of the Mahaweli River, the longest river in Sri Lanka. Construction of the project was launched by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 25 January 2007. [1] The maiden waters of the dam was released in July 2018. [2]