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Road to vihara to be repaired by Poson
By Athula Bandara
The Road Development Authority (RDA) will ensure that the repair work on the Anuradhapura-Vilachchiya main road leading to Tantrimale Vihara is to be completed before the Poson poya.

This is a sequel to the request made to the Prime Minister by the viharadhipathi and the Buddhist residents of the area that the road work be completed before Poson, an RDA source said.

Thousands of devotees visit this historic vihare for the Poson festival. As the road to the vihara is in a bad condition, vehicles find it difficult to travel on it. This was told the Prime Minister, who is also the Highways Minister, by the viharadhipathi Ven. Tantrimale Chandarathana Thero who is the deputy Sanghanayake of the North-East division.

The length of the Anuradhapura - Villachchiya road leading to the Tantrimale vihare is 17 kms of which only 3 kms had been repaired earlier by the provincial roads department under a foreign aid project.

Residents say that taking a patient to the Anuradhapura General Hospital from this area is a hazardous job and there have been two or three incidents where patients stung by reptiles have died on the way while being transported to Anurahapura from the Tantrimale hospital.

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