Landslide - prone residents in Ratnapura warned

by Naalir Jamaldeen

The National Building Research Organisation's (NBRO) Landslide Division has instructed people living in landslide prone areas in the Ratnapura district to move to safe areas, due to the adverse weather. Lower Wavelketiya Division in Ratnapura is also vulnerable to landslides. Following the instructions from the NBRO 40 families residing in the lower Wavelketiya left the area and took shelter in Hapugastanna Estate Hospital.

Hapugastanna Barathi Welfare Society and the Management of Hapugastanna

Estate provide food and other rations to 100 persons who have taken shelter in the Hapugastanna Estate Hospital.

Ratnapura Pradeshiya Sabha and Estate Administration renovated the road

to Lower Wavelketiya Division which was damaged by a landslide few months prior to being renovated by Ratnapura Pradeshiya Sabha and Estate Management.