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Title: Programmes connected to Wilpattu National Park to commence today
Post by: indunil on July 11, 2011, 05:38:57 pm
A number of development programmes will commence today connected with the Wilpattu National Park, to coincide with the inauguration of the Deyata Kirula exhibition in Anuradhapura.

Agrarian Services and Wildlife Minister S M Chandrasena will lay the foundation stone for constructing a new entrance to the Wilpattu National Park from the Southern side of the park. Action has also been taken to undertake restoration of twenty tanks.

In addition, seven tourist homes and fifteen tourist camp grounds will be constructed by the park managements. An electric fence for the Eastern side of the park, is also to be constructed within a length of 100 metres.

With the opening of the new entrance, sightseers arriving from ares such as Jaffna and Vavuniya will be in a position to enjoy easier entrance to the park.

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