An audit report issued by National Audit Office discloses that a surplus sum of Rs. 450.56 million has been spent by December 31, 2023 exceeding the estimated total cost on the Eco Plantation Park Holuwagoda in Galle. The excess amount is 131 percent of the total estimate of the project.
Upon a Cabinet Decision in 2022 Plantations Industries Ministry had entered into an agreement with the Land Development Cooperation of the value of Rs. 431.96 million for the implementation of the respective project. As per the Cabinet decision this project had been named as Holuwagoda Eco Plantation Project amalgamating pursuits belong to the scopes of subjects of both Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture Department. To spend money on a pursuit which did not come under the scope of subjects of the respective ministry was disputable in the audit investigation, the Audit Report emphasises.
The farmers claim that owing to the implementation of the project some new environmental problems have been created. As some canal ways have been blocked in executing the project, some areas such as Holuwagoda and Opatha are folded even in a small down pour. However, to find solution to the said environmental problems and to rectify them a discussion of the relevant stakeholders was held under the patronage of Galle District Parliamentarian Nishantha Samaraweera at the Bope-Poddala Pradeshiya Sabha auditorium.
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