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Heavy vehicles worth Rs. 2,353 million presented to Army

Over one-hundred heavy vehicles worth Rs. 2,353 million were presented to the Sri Lanka Army for development activities currently under way in the Northern Province.

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The vehicles purchased from China, include 22 bulldozers, 37 motor graders, nine rollers, 14 excavators and 19 wheel loaders.

The new vehicles will be used mainly for road development and to repair irrigation systems in the North.

Chairman of the Presidential Task Force for Northern Development, Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa MP, presented the vehicles to the Army Commander, Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya at a special event yesterday at the Galle Face Green.

Chairman Basil Rajapaksa said the development and resettlement programs in the North is the Government’s highest priority.

“Thus it is important to expedite the development activities taking place in the North,” he said. Chinese Ambassador Yang Xiuping, Secretary to the Ministry of Nation Building W.K.K. Kumarasiri, Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, U.A. Wickramasinghe and Chief Field Engineer of the Engineering Corps Major General Deepal Alwis were also present.



Heavy vehicles for military operations were imported during the past several years. With terrorism eradicated heavy vehicles are now imported for reconstruction and development activities in the North and the East. The heavy vehicles for development activities will replace the tanks and artillery machinery which were a familiar sight earlier. Here Presidential Advisor and Parliamentarian Basil Rajapaksa, MP presents the consignment of heavy vehicles worth millions of rupees to Army Chief Lt. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya at a ceremony at the Galle Face Green yesterday. China’s Ambassador in Sri Lanka Yang Xiuping is also in the picture.

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