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Upper Kotmale : CWC protest by P. Krishnaswamy The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) led by Housing and Estate Infrastructure Minister, Arumugam Thondaman, will stage a token protest tomorrow, June 23 in several areas in the hill country against the government's decision to go ahead with Upper Kotmale Hydro Project (UHKHP). The CWC representing a bulk of the plantation population has continued to express misgivings over the project's adverse environmental impacts and had once before mounted protests at the project site in Talawakelle. More than 100,000 plantation workers from Nuwara-Eliya, Hatton, Bogawantalawa, Maskeliya, Talawakele, Pussellawa and Kotmale areas will stage different forms of protests including satyagrahas, boycotts, road demonstrations, processions and protest meetings, CWC Deputy President M. S. Sellasamy told the Sunday Observer. It is likely that work on the plantations will be disrupted on account of these token protests. The CWC had explained to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the grave environmental problems that would be encountered due to such hydro-power projects and subsequently the launching of the UKHP was stalled, but tenders for the project have now been called for, Sellasamy said. |
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