SRI LANKA UNIVERSITIES TSUNAMI DAMAGE – ONE YEAR ON
December 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo
A YEAR after the Boxing Day tsunami, the four badly affected universities in Sri Lanka's north, south and east are boxing on, with a bare minimum of repairs and reconstruction for want of funds. The University Grants Commission (UGC) had estimated the damage to the buildings and hostels at Ruhunu, South Eastern, Jaffna and Eastern universities to be SL Rupees 72 million (Pounds 387,000 at local prices), but its Chairman Professor Ranjith Mendis regretted that "the government and foreign donors had not been able" to find ...
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