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City of Colombo in future
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total cost of the MCUDP is US $ 223 million. This project will be managed by
the Project Management Unit of the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development
while implementation responsibilities are handled by three project implementing
agencies- Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (SLLRDC),
Urban Development Authority (UDA) and Colombo Municipal Council (CMC). The
World Bank funded project is one of the main projects that has been launched
with the intention of achieving profound economic transformation through urban
development. The broader objectives of the MCUDP are to compliment the present
urban regeneration programme of the Government of Sri Lanka to reduce the
physical and socio economic impacts of flooding in the Metro Colombo Region and
to improve priority local infrastructure and services to enhance urban
regeneration.
Speaking
on the current status of the project at a meeting held at the World Bank
Conference Room, Colombo last Tuesday Senior Urban Specialist of The World
Bank, Rosanna Nitti said that the packages procured or under tendering are Town
Hall, Walkability, Public Conveniences, Aluth Mawatha Culvert, Galle Road and
Duplication Road Rehabilitation and gabion protection for a section of East
Beira Lake. When planning the project the changing weather patterns specially
rainfall patterns during the last 25 years have been taken into consideration.
The
third component consists of implementation support. In fact the objectives of
this Considering social safeguards, the project also needs to comply with World
Bank Operational Policies in addition to conformity with the Land Acquisition
Act and Sri Lanka's National Policy on Involuntary Resettlement of 2001. When
preparing the resettlement component social aspects have been taken into full
consideration.
