Severe difficulties due to non-completion of six roads
Residents of several rural areas in the Kamburupitiya Pradeshiya Sabha area in the Kamburupitiya Divisional Secretariat Division in the Matara District have been facing severe difficulties for the past one and a half years due to the deferment of the road developments after commencing carpeting work. People who use these roads are severely inconvenienced. The company that was awarded the contract said that they do not have the money to complete the work, and the road development work has stopped.
The road development work has stopped on the following road after the carpeting work commenced on 10.02.2020;
- Polgahamulla – Baragahamulla – Narandeniya road
- Ullala – Masmulla road
- Lenabatuwa – Bibulawela road.
- Pololpitiya – Hatamuna Road.
- Narandeniya – Boraluketiya road.
- Paragahathota – Bibulawela road.
Many areas including Yatiyana, Ullala, Mapalana, Masmulla, Bibulawela, Vitiyala, GamUdawa, Miriswatta, Athuraliya, Lenabatuwa, Sapugoda, Narandeniya are connected by these roads and people in these areas use these roads on a daily basis. The people are finding it extremely difficult to use these roads since some sections have been excavated, barricades erected, part construction of drains and also with large stones placed obstructing travel. This has caused great inconvenience to the locals using these roads.
The contractor for this road development project, ceremonially launched under the government’s national program of carpeting 100,000 km by 2020, is a contractor based in Tangalle. The Pololpitiya-Hatamuna road which is one of the main roads to be developed is an alternate easy access road from Akuressa to the Ingurupathwala entrance on the Southern Expressway. Highways Minister Johnston Fernando laid the foundation stone.
The people who have been suffering from this unfinished road work for nearly two years have informed the political authority of the district. In such a situation, the relevant contractor should be blacklisted as a defaulter and the contract should be awarded to another contractor, but for some reason the appropriate action is still being neglected and ignored.
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