Whither Kandy City?

The new Kandy Municipal Council is faced with the onerous task of restoring the City of Kandy to its once garden city fame. As it stands, Kandy City is untidy, overcrowded and worn out. The present Mayor who served a previous term should be well aware, where the priorities lie. His recent statement that the Megapolis Ministry has ignored the elected authority of the Kandy Municipal Council ( ST 22/ 4/ 18) and is ready to turn the city into a concrete jungle should alert the citizens and all councillors from across the political divide to this imminent disaster

With the once beautiful lake already polluted, unauthorized struc- tures dotting the landscape and a concrete jungle looming menacingly, everything that the city was proud of is quietly, craftily and clinically being taken away. The citizens must wake up to this disaster and lend their support to the Mayor to restore the lost glory of a . once beautiful Kandy .

D.C. Nugawela Colombo 5