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by Gamini Warusamana

The ever- increasing price of sand and steel in the local market has hampered the construction industry as well as individual house- builders. The price of steel is getting steeper due to increases in world market prices while sand prices are increasing due to the shortage of sand in the river basins and the limiting of mining to licence- holders only.
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