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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2017-09-26
Establishment of District Offices of the National Building Research Organization (NBRO) in high risk landslide-prone Districts
- The National Building Research Organization is an institution which carries out all related activities of landslide investigations, mapping out disaster prone zones, awareness creation, early warning indication and issuance of Landslide Risk Assessment Certificate prior to all construction and development projects in the landslide-prone areas through its Head Office in Colombo and the district offices located in 09 landslide-prone districts.

In view of the unprecedented increase of landslides and collapsing of slopes has been observed, as never before, due to the climate change impacts and changing monsoon patterns that bring any heavy rains and in order to enable to provide services to the public in an efficient manner, the proposal made by Hon. Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, the Minister of Disaster Management, to construct permanent office buildings with modern laboratory facilities in the most critical two (02) landslide-prone Districts and thereafter as per the necessity, to provide such facilities in the other Districts as well, was approved by the Cabinet.