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  2. Mahaweli Development programme - Wikipedia

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    Mahaweli Development programme. The Mahaweli Development program (Sinhala: මහවැලි සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන) is known as the largest multipurpose national development program in the history of Sri Lanka and is also considered the keystone of the government's development program that was initiated in 1961.

  3. Poverty in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The Sri Lankan government has been successful in reducing poverty from 15.2% on 2006 to 8.9% in 2010, urban poverty was reduced from 6.7 to 5.3% while rural poverty was reduced from 15.7 to 9.5%, and the nation has made significant progress towards achieving Millennium Development Goals on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.

  4. Ministry of Urban Development and Housing - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 9 June 1959: Minister of Local Government and Housing [10] 21 November 1959: W. Dahanayake: M. B. W. Mediwake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: J. R. Jayewardene: United National Party: 23 March 1960: 1960: Dudley Senanayake [10] Mahanama Samaraweera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 July 1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike [11] Badi-ud-din ...

  5. Districts of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka has 25 districts organized into 9 provinces. [1] Districts are further divided into a number of divisional secretariats (commonly known as D.S. divisions), which are in turn subdivided into 14,022 grama niladhari divisions. [2] There are 331 DS divisions in Sri Lanka. [3]

  6. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka's population, (1871–2001) Sri Lanka has roughly 22,156,000 people and an annual population growth rate of 0.5%. The birth rate is 13.8 births per 1,000 people, and the death rate is 6.0 deaths per 1,000 people. [ 270 ] Population density is highest in western Sri Lanka, especially in and around the capital.

  7. Geography of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the Indian subcontinent, in a strategic location near major sea lanes. [1] The nation has a total area of 65,610 square kilometres (25,330 sq mi), with 64,630 square kilometres (24,950 sq mi) of land and 980 square kilometres (380 sq ...

  8. Demographics of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka's population is aging faster than any other nation in South Asia and has the fifth highest rapidly growing population of older people in Asia after China, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. [16] [17] [18] In 2015, Sri Lanka's population aged over 60 was 13.9%, by 2030 this will increase to 21% and by 2050 this number will reach 27.4%.

  9. Ambalama - Wikipedia

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    An ambalama (Sinhala: අම්බලම) is a place constructed for pilgrims, traders and travellers to rest in Sri Lanka. This is a simple structure designed to provide shelter for the travellers. [1] The last examples of anbalange remained until about the end of the 1970s. There were no charges involved in using an Ambalama.

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