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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 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 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 ...
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
A consequent report to the government recommended the militarization of settlements in the area, and the government complied. [5] The UTHR reported that the Weli Oya colonization scheme was only a ploy by the military to use civilians as "both bait and human shields against the LTTE." Two Sinhalese clergymen characterized it as an "unwanted ...
Ministry of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government. Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government; Ministry of Fisheries. Minister of Fisheries; Ministry of Education. Minister of Education; Ministry of Transport and Highways. Minister of Transport and Highways
According to the Mahaweli Master Plan of 1968, the development of Mahaweli was divided to three projects named A, B and C out of which the last 'C' project was the Moragahakanda Multi-Purpose Reservoir. In 1977 the project was modified and the Accelerated Mahaweli Scheme(AMS) started and was completed in 6 years.