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  2. Local government in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The Town Councils Ordinance No. 3 of 1946 created Town Councils for small towns. 24 Town Councils were created by abolishing all the Sanitary Boards and Local Health and Sanitation Boards that existed at that time. The Town Councils were divided into wards and provided local services such as thoroughfares, public health, common amenities ...

  3. Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning

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    The Department of Town and Country Planning (DT) quickly established in 1962 with only eleven employees transferred from Bangkok and Thonburi municipalities and Public Works Department Town Planning Office. [6] [7] The DT started to design the planning throughout the nation in 2002, which concerned only at regional level to provincial level.

  4. Town Planning Board - Wikipedia

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    The Town Planning Board (Chinese: 城市規劃委員會) is a statutory body of the Hong Kong Government tasked with developing urban plans with an aim to ensuring the "health, safety, convenience and general welfare of the community through the process of guiding and controlling the development and use of land, and to bring about a better ...

  5. Ministry of Urban Development (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Urban Development is the Sri Lankan government ministry responsible for planning and implementation of Economic social and physical development of the areas declared by the Minister-in-charge of the subject of Urban development. The ministry was established by an Act of parliament bearing No 41 of 1978.

  6. Mahaweli Development programme - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Theories of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    Urban planning designs settlements, from the smallest towns to the largest cities. Shown here is Hong Kong from Western District overlooking Kowloon, across Victoria Harbour. Planning theory is the body of scientific concepts, definitions, behavioral relationships, and assumptions that define the body of knowledge of urban planning. There is no ...

  8. Manasara - Wikipedia

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    Manasara is a compound of Sanskrit māna (measurement) and sāra (essence), meaning "essence of measurement" states P.K. Acharya – the scholar who discovered the complete manuscript (70 chapters) and was first to translate it into English in early 20th-century.

  9. Mullaitivu District - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Mullaittīvu Māvaṭṭam; Sinhala: ... The capital of the district is the town of Mullaitivu.