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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2018-03-27
Additional Financing for Rural Bridges Project
The need to construct approximately 400 bridges to upgrade the economic development in the rural areas and to reduce the provincial disparities has been identified. The currently ongoing project implemented to construction 1,210 bridges is in the final stages of completion, with over 1000 bridges completed and about 200 more to be completed.

Considering the requests received from the different Provinces for the immediate completion of the bridges to improve the rural connectivity, the proposal made by Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, the Prime Minister in his capacity as the Minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs, to extend the periods of the relevant loan agreements to obtain the additional provisions required for the construction of 250 more bridges from the same agencies that funded for the original projects, was approved by the Cabinet.