The Cabinet of the Ministers approved the proposal made by Lakshman Kiriella, Minister of Higher Education and Highways to implement three new projects using the balance allocation of the Southern Transport Development Project.
The balance allocations of Rs. 1.93 billion of the contract for the construction of Southern section of the Southern Expressway from Pinnaduwa to Godagama will be used for the rehabilitation of 11 local roads, procuring of 04 police cars to be deployed in duties at the expressway and to rectify the slope failure at 114 km of the expressway.
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