Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2021-02-22

Expansion of the Kalutara Industrial Estate

- The Kalutara Industrial Estate has been set up in a land in extent of 50 acres called “Pullerton Estate” and at present, 33 investors have set up factories and its commercial production activities are successfully being carried out. Those investors have invested at around Rs. 837 million and have provided about 775 job opportunities. Although both local and foreign investors have forwarded to set up industries in the western province, no land blocks remain in any of the 08 industrial estates set up in the western province. Taking these into consideration, the proposal made by the Minister of Industries to release the Government owned land in extent of 1.946 hectares located adjacent to the Kalutara Industrial Estate to expand the said industrial estate and to allocate such lands to the industrialists under the Regional Industrial Estate Development Programme, having fulfilled required infrastructure facilities, was approved by the Cabinet.