The Government of Sri Lanka conceptualises this Uthuru Mithuru project not as a mere exercise of reconstructing the Northern railway line to Jaffna and Kankasanthurai, but also as a bridge of fraternity between the people of the North and the South. Therefore, deviating from the typical infrastructure development project, the Uthuru Mithuru takes a different shape where wider participation of general public in rebuilding this giant project, in whichever capacity they wish to contribute.
The revival of the inherent strength of Sri Lankans is intended, which enabled the construction of wonders through people's participation along our proud history of more than 2500 years, and the true sense of "national ownership" to the asset that will be hence created is expected to go long way in healing the wounds of the recent past, and to form a harmonious homogeneity in diversity.
The project will consist of the relaying of track, rehabilitation or rebuilding of bridges and reconstruction of Stations, new installation of signalling and communication system. Each of these components will be disaggregated into sub-activities, which are of manageable size, and will be made available for the patriotic citizens, groups, organisations or companies to individually or jointly undertake. The participation may be extended in number of ways, ranging from simple monetary contribution to collective undertaking of construction work of any one or more of these sub-components. This concept has already received positive acclamation with Hambantota people mobilising to construct the Jaffna railway station, and Matara people to construct Kilinochchi station.
The project also ensures that every cent received as contributions is appreciated, as much as every drop of sweat. It also is formulating the institutional framework to ensure that the contributions are secured, properly administered under the supervision of the Treasury, and the utilisation scrutinised by the Auditor General. This will ensure that the contributions made by the general public towards implementation of this project are deployed for the purpose, only for the purpose, and nothing but for the purpose. |
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