Saturday, June 30, 2018

President Has Instructed The Authorities To Build The Proposed Elephant Fence ASAP

President Maithripala Sirisena has yesterday (29) instructed the authorities to begin the work of building  the proposed 2500 Kilo Meter long Elephant Fence in view of Preventing Human-Elephant conflict  which currently previls in many areas.

President has urged the authorities during  a meeting held at the  President's Office yesterday regarding the construction work of the Elephant Fence ,to begin the construction work of the proposed Elephant fence as well as paying attention to the imporrance of maintaining the Elephant fence correctly  and to operate the Electric Fence which  currently not functioning.

At present Sri Lanka has around 4000 Kilo Meter long Elephant Fences and the number of Civil Defense Force Personal employed to protect  the fence numbering 1860 is not sufficent enough  to maintain it ,it has been revealed during the meeting.

President Sirisena has instructed the authorities to fill the shortage of Civil Defense Force Personal  experienced in area covering the Elephant fence.

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