Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2012-12-19

Greater Colombo Urban Transport Development Project - Outer Circular Highway Project - Extension of Consultancy Services for the Design Review and Construction Supervision for the Southern Section and Northern Section 1

- the Outer Circular Highway starts from Kottawa and traverses through Kaduwela, Kadawatha and ends up at Kerawelapitiya. It connects Colombo - Katunayaka Expressway at Kerawelapitiya, and Southern Expressway at Kottawa and the total length of the Outer Circular Highway is 29.1 km. The proposal made by H.E. the President, in his capacity as the Minister of Ports and Highways, to extend the time limit of the ongoing contract for providing consultancy services up to 2015?04?30 and to revise the total cost of the contract to Japanese Yen 1,234,904,851.00 and LKR 1,155,771,508.00, was approved by the Cabinet.