The Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam
Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam urged the Minister to prioritize irrigation management and rehabilitation in the East. He proposed improving water distribution from Senanayake Samudraya’s right bank to Rubus Kulam to enable cultivation on over 4,500 acres for two seasons, and requested attention to the Kandiyanaru and Panichenkeni tanks in Batticaloa, noting that studies on Kandiyanaru had already been submitted.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 I will conclude.
¶ 02 Hon. Minister, in Batticaloa District there are several critical tanks. Likewise, there is a large water body in Ampara District—better to call it the Senanayake Samudraya than a tank. If you properly manage its right bank and send water through the canal to Rubus Kulam in the Kanjikudicharu area, then more than 4,500 acres can do two seasons of cultivation. Please consider this. In Batticaloa, we have conducted studies on the Kandiyanaru tank and submitted reports. If this tank is rehabilitated within this year, more paddy lands can be utilized. Next, the Panichenkeni tank. Please focus on these three tanks as well.
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Cite as: The Hon. Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 27 November 2025. No. 23013. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5389