Vehicles and machinery worth millions of rupees used during the construction of the Moragahakanda-Kaluganga Reservoir Project are currently being left to rot, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Matale District MP Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon stated.
The MP said this yesterday after visiting the vehicle yards where vehicles and machinery that were once used in the construction of the project were now idling. He carried out an inspection visit to the location after receiving information from area residents.
Among the vehicles that the MP found being left to rot at the vehicle yards were ambulances, buses, double cabs, vans, tipper trucks and even backhoes. All vehicles had been imported by the Chinese firm that carried out the project and they had been imported tax free, Mahaweli officials in charge of the reservoir project told the MP.
Mr Tennakoon said he spoke to State Minister Siripala Gamlath, who is in charge of Mahaweli Development project, about the matter and appealed to him to take steps to at least utilize the ambulances and buses at the yard for the moment for emergency use given the current pandemic situation.
Text and Pix by Kanchana Kumara Ariyadasa
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