NECORD funded school buildings opened in Mannar

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 08:33 GMT]
Mr.V.Visuvalingam, Mannar Government Agent, Monday declared open three new class room buildings in three Tamil schools in the LTTE held area in the Mannar district. The building were constructed at a cost of about 6.4 million rupees with the funds provided by the North East Community Restoration Development (NECORD) programme. Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds the NECORD, sources said.

The newly constructed buildings are located in Kovilkulam Tamil School, Vellankulam Tamil School and Thevanpiddy Tamil School in Manthai West Divisional Secretariat division, sources said.

Mr.Kishore Sivanathan, Wanni district parliamentarian was the chief guest. Mr.K.Rajaretnam, NECORD Deputy Project Director in Mannar, Mr.M.Theventhiran, Madhu Zonal Director of Education and Mr.S.Jesuthasan, Deputy Zonal Director of Education participated in the event.