Access Engineering PLC; one of the foremost civil engineering companies in Sri Lanka successfully concluded Rehabilitation of Flood Damaged Major Irrigation Infrastructures in Batticaloa District under the Climate Resilience Improvement Project recently.

Climate Resilience Improvement Project is part of the comprehensive Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program earmarked by the Government of Sri Lanka to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and to adapt the stock of infrastructure to the ones that could improve the capacity to withstand natural disasters.

The project is jointly funded by World Bank and the Government of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is the first South Asian Country to access an innovative form of World Bank financing that provides immediate payouts after a major catastrophe.

Recognizing that the country suffers a rainfall pattern and water related climate vulnerability which is likely to intensify in the years to come, nine river basins were recognized to carry out flood and drought hazard modeling under the flood risk mitigation component of the project which primarily focus on rehabilitating infrastructure damaged by recent floods or those particularly at risk to future floods.

Furthering the cause, the contract of the Improvement to Sammugarajah Anicut, Reconstruction of Nelluchchanai Anicut, Reconstruction of Kayamadu Regulator, Improvement & Rehabilitation of T11 channel & Widening, Straightening the Moongil Aru from D/S of Muniwaram Anicut to U/S of Muhathuwaram Anicut in Navakiri Scheme in Batticaloa District was entrusted to Access Engineering PLC by the Irrigation Department. The consultancy services for the project was also provided by the Irrigation Department and project is successfully completed on September 2016

Nelluchchanai Anicut upon completion

Sammugarajah Anicut upon completion

Mr. D.H.N.C.K Wijesinghe; the project Manager of Rehabilitation of Flood Damaged Major Irrigation Infrastructure, Batticaloa District