Permission Given To Hold Annual Processions (Perahara)Without The Participation Of Public

Covid Prevention Tas k Force has today (12)decided to allow all Main Buddhist Temples and Devalaya's t in the country to  conduct their Annual processions (Perahera)without the participation of public by following the Corona prevention Health Guidelines according to the President's Media Division .

Accordingly Annual Processions  of All temples and Devalaya's including Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy ,Sabaragamuwa and Kataragama Devalaya's ' will be held this year as usual without the public and with the participation of minimum number of Artistes .

The Artistes selected to participate the processions should be participated with the health certificatte issued by the Health officer in tbeir respective areas the President's Media division has stated .

All the events of the annual  Esala perahera (Proession ) in Kandy Sri dalada Maligawa are scheduled to be telecasted live  over the T.v for ten days it has been announced.

This wil be the first time in Sri Lanka's  History that the Annual.processions are scheduled to be held without public viewers and partucipation of minimum number of Artistes .

These decisions had been taken during a meeting held between Covid Prevention Task force members  and Basnayake Nilame's of Devalaya's today under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapakshe .