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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2010-12-15
Enhancing National Emergency Response Capacity in Sri Lanka
- the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) which operates 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, implemented the Disaster Management Communication and Capacity Development Project at a cost of Euro 6.5 million under this project, 50 Early Warning Towers, Radio Communication Network covering ten Districts a ten seater capacity call centre have been established. After eliminating terrorist threats in the Northern and Eastern provinces, there is a need to improve Fire and Rescue Capacity and Early Warning Communication Capacity in these two Districts. Cabinet approval has already been granted to implement the project in 02 stages. 1st Stage of the project (Phase II) is under implementation and Cabinet approval was granted to implement Stage II (Phase III) of the project. With the completion of the final phase of this project there will be an Island wide emergency response network with 100 numbers of Early Warning Towers and 26 fully equipped Fire Stations in Sri Lanka.
- the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) which operates 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, implemented the Disaster Management Communication and Capacity Development Project at a cost of Euro 6.5 million under this project, 50 Early Warning Towers, Radio Communication Network covering ten Districts a ten seater capacity call centre have been established. After eliminating terrorist threats in the Northern and Eastern provinces, there is a need to improve Fire and Rescue Capacity and Early Warning Communication Capacity in these two Districts. Cabinet approval has already been granted to implement the project in 02 stages. 1st Stage of the project (Phase II) is under implementation and Cabinet approval was granted to implement Stage II (Phase III) of the project. With the completion of the final phase of this project there will be an Island wide emergency response network with 100 numbers of Early Warning Towers and 26 fully equipped Fire Stations in Sri Lanka.