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Swimming pool for Colombo University:MOU signed with alumni support1

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Signing of the MOU. From L to R: Alumni ExCo Member J. M. S. Bandara, Thilan Koththigoda, Prof. Chandrika Wijeyaratne, Vice Chancellor, Rajeev Amarasuriya, Mrs. Sunethra Peiris, Alumni Head of Administration and Asanka Ranhotty, Co-Chair, Swimming Pool Steering Committee.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed last week between the Alumni Association of the University of Colombo and KWA Architects for the Architectural and Structural Work for a new 50 Meter swimming pool for the University of Colombo.

The Alumni Association of the University of Colombo has undertaken to construct a professional standard swimming pool for the university meeting a long-felt need. Construction is due to commence by the middle of this year.

Once built,The proposed swimming pool complex the facility will benefit present and future generations of students of the University of Colombo for years to come, the Alumni Association said in a news release.

KWA Architects have agreed to provide all the design and structural work without charge. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Thilan Koththigoda, Precedent Partner of KWA Architects said that they and their partners, all of whom have benefited from the national u iversity system, consider this project as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility. Many of the Architects at KWA, including himself are products of the local university system and they considered this a give-back opportunity..

KWA began in 2001 as an independent design studio mainly focusing on built space and interior design. Now, it is a registered Chartered Architectural Practice with portfolio covering a wide range of projects for private clients and developers, in Sri Lanka and the Middle East. Its special focus is on tourism, leisure, commercial/retail and residential architecture as well as master planning and urban design.

The project team will comprise Architects Thilan Koththigoda and Ms. Thushari Wijesundera as the lead architects, Chartered Engineer Nuwan Bandaranayake, Director Engineering of Edifice Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd as the Structural Engineer, Chartered Engineer Shiran Jayalath as the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineer and Hasitha Gunasekera, Managing Director of ARQS Consultants (Pvt) Ltd as the cost consultants

Rajeev Amarasuriya, President of the Alumni Association of the University of Colombo said that when the University requested the support of the Alumni Association to construct this Swimming Pool Complex, they undertook it although it was a very large project as it would benefit many generations of present and future students. They had undertaken many major projects for the university including a 400-bed Women’s Hostel Complex at Buller’s Lane and were now happy to take on a larger project for which he invited alumni support.



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Stay on course and don’t go back to the past – Dr Indrajit Coomaraswamy

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Former Governor of the Central Bank delivering the keynote address at a high profile Webinar hosted by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka today (24)  said that Sri Lanka must implement the structural reforms proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) without relaxing like in the past or else we will be in a deeper economic mess.

The webinar was titled ‘What is next for Sri Lanka in the wake of the IMF programme’

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Sustainable economic development goals cannot be achieved unless attention is paid to mitigating climate change – Sagala Ratnayake

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President’s Senior Adviser on National Security and Chief of Presidential Staff  Sagala Ratnayake said sustainable economic development goals cannot be accomplished without taking steps to mitigate climate change.

He said this while participating in the 10,000 sapling planting program organized by the LEO Youth Vision 2048 Club and the LEO Club at the Royal College, Colombo on Thursday (23rd).

This program was organized in view of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s birthday, which is today (24), and the required plants were distributed to the main schools of the Colombo District.

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SF claims thousands of police and military personnel leaving

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By Saman Indrajith

Thousands of police and military personnel had left the services recently as they did not want to carry out illegal orders, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka told Parliament yesterday. According to the war-winning army commander 200 policemen have resigned during the past two months and 25,000 soldiers have left the army during the last two years.

“We urged the law enforcement and military officials not to follow illegal orders. We will reinstate them with back pay,” he said.

Fonseka also urged the President and the government MPs not to take people for fools.

“Sri Lanka owes 55 billion dollars to the world. Ranil’s plan is to borrow another seven billion during the next four years. So, in four years we will owe 62 billion to the world.

Ranil and his ministers ask us what the alternative to borrowing is. These are the people who destroyed the economy and society. They must leave. Then, we will find an alternative and develop the country,” he said, adding that the IMF loans had made crises in other nations worse.

“Ranil says that by 2025, we will have a budget surplus as in Japan, Germany and South Korea. These countries are economic power houses, and this comparison is ludicrous.”

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