Annual Report 2008 - Ministry of Finance and Planning

5. Foreign Financing of the Budget
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Box 5.2
Development Assistance from the Asian Development Bank Contd.
Panadura - Ingiriya, Weerawila – Kataragama, Ambatale –
Kaduwela, Pasyala - Mirigama, Pelmadulla – Embilipitiya ,
Nittambuwa - Urapola, Ambalangoda – Elpitiya, Nawalpitiya
– Ginigathhena, and Nagoda –Agalawatte.
Fishery Harbour - Ambalangoda
Rehabilitated Pelmadulla – Madampe Road
Coastal Resources Management Project - US$ 41 mn
The project supported to establish 3 fishery harbours at
Hambanthota, Chilaw and Ambalangoda and renovated fish
selling center at Negombo. Various coast line stabilization
measures were taken for sea erosion control at the degraded
sites of Western coastal belt of the Island while introducing
special areas management plans for habitat conservation
and resource management of Bar Reef, Negombo, Lunawa,
Koggala, Tangalle, Mawella and Kalametiy lagoons and
Muthurajawela Wet Land, Maduganga Estuary, Hikkaduwa
Reef and Habaraduwa - Unawatuna Bay ecological sites. To
sustain the coastal eco systems in the areas of Maduganga,
Kalametitya, Kalpitiya, and Negombo lagoons, visitor/
community centers were established.
Key projects to be implemented
• Clean Energy & Access Improvement Project -
US$164.2 mn
The project will improve the power transmission and
distribution network in Sri Lanka
• Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project
- US$ 100 mn
The project will rehabilitate the existing sewerage
network in Colombo, Kollonnawa and Dehiwala/Mount
Lavinia municipalities.
• Dry Zone Urban Water & Sanitation Project
- US$ 85 mn
The loan supports for the rehabilitation, expansion and
development of water and sanitation infrastructure in
the major towns of Vavniya, Mannar, Puttlam, Chilaw in
the dry zone.
• Eastern & North Central Provincial Roads Project –
1st Phase - US$ 70 mn
The project will reconstruct 506 km of provincial roads in
Eastern and North Central Province.
Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka
Annual Report 2008