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| Sunday, 26 January 2003 |
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A garden transformation by Kumar Corea In these days when people have no time and labour and you need a trim on your garden lawn. Hey Presto! and you had it just like that so quickly. Forty year old A. M. Nandadasa who had his early beginnings as a home gardener in the city of Colombo, earned enough to buy himself a motorised rotating grass cutter. To start with he employed a helper and began re-visiting his garden haunts. His popularity began to grow and he found himself to be a wanted man. In 1994 he met with a motor cycle collision with a Chinese embassy vehicle, and dislocated his right foot ankle. But he did not give up. He increased his workforce, many of them one by one began to leave him and start on their own. Today he has employed only family members, including his sixty six old father whom he has trained. He now has two three wheelers and a tractor. He takes the role of driving these and supervises the work. He places a gang of four, out of the eight at one spot and reaches the other. Nandadasa works methodically by appointment and lives at 55/2 Maitland Place. A bachelor and a bread winner for most of his brothers and sisters, a family of nine. One younger brother is mentally disturbed. His workers, like him, are very obliging, not inquisitive and are quick at work. Each completed job would take about an hour to finish. In addition they undertake laying out of lawns, servicing lawn mowers, plumbing, etc. I would recommend that such an enterprise deserves public encouragement and help in expansion, which also helps in making our city and suburbs beautiful. |
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