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'NERF' and the amazing impasse that should never have been

by PROF. C. SURIYAKUMARAN

In a concluding thought, I would most earnestly recommend, not simply because of the current massive flood destructions in the South, but because of their constant recurrence within this writer's long memory, that a South East Reconstruction Fund (SERF) be installed as a continuing mechanism, with legal framework, for massive International Fundings support that will regenerate and buttress the entire topography of the South - West and South Regions, its catchments, river flows, reservoirs, forests and human settlements. We are sure that the entire country would support this.
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