{"id":62573,"date":"2017-01-21T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62573"},"modified":"2017-01-21T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T01:54:56","slug":"yahaplanaya-marapalanaya-or-gotapalanya-or-champikapalanaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/21\/yahaplanaya-marapalanaya-or-gotapalanya-or-champikapalanaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahaplanaya MaraPalanaya or Gotapalanya or Champikapalanaya \u00a0??"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dr Sarath Obeysekera ( Ex chairman SLLRDC)<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Sri Lankan have short memories like fish !<\/p>\n<p>People who used to talk about evils of Mara Palanaya ot Gotapalanya is now talking about sins of Yahapalanaya\u00a0 and may even be of Champikapalnaya ?<\/p>\n<p>Few years back I was traveling by car along Thalawathugoda Road to Hokandara passing a house of Ex UNP ,Ex DP of General and\u00a0 (I do not know where \u00a0he is now ) ,there is a paddy field where the rain \u00a0water catchment flows crossing the road to Talangama Tank which SLLRDC is dredging to form a \u00a0canal to facilitate storm water flow \u00a0towards Ambatale .<\/p>\n<p>There was a part of the paddy field filled forcibly \u00a0by a politician .SLLRDC warned him several times in 2013 -2014 \u00a0and before ,and yet he filled it . SLLRDC as per their legal rights to remove the earth in a filled area without permission\u00a0 , deployed heavy machinery and removed the earth .<\/p>\n<p>Politician protested ,but Super Secretary who was in charge of SLLRDC went in person to supervise the removal of filled material and made a hole in the paddy field .<\/p>\n<p>Presumably to show that  he means business  and he does not give a hoot !<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was happy and elated and whispered to each other\u00a0  very good \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0( Honda wadey\u2019 )<\/p>\n<p>Today in 2017, I was passing by the same location ,( I keep watching paddy lands being filled as I was the Chairman of SLLRDC ) I saw the same dredged Paddy land being filled again during weekends and lorries were unloading earth .I noted that filling is taking place close to the canal which has a \u00a0very restricted culvert. This road is earmarked for widening and there will be a wider bridge and a wider canal.But the current filling and any construction will hinder any further storm water drainage to Talangama Tank.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I\u00a0 became irritated and called SLLRDC and complained .<\/p>\n<p>Do you know the answer \u2026\u2026\u2026\u201dWe cannot do much ,,Culprits have got all the permissions except their\u2019s ! and it may be imminent that SLLRDC\u00a0 may have to cave in .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you like Yahapalanaya ? May be Gotapalnaya is better ?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n<p>( Ex chairman SLLRDC)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera ( Ex chairman SLLRDC) Sri Lankan have short memories like fish ! People who used to talk about evils of Mara Palanaya ot Gotapalanya is now talking about sins of Yahapalanaya\u00a0 and may even be of Champikapalnaya ? Few years back I was traveling by car along Thalawathugoda Road to Hokandara passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}