The construction work on new ECD centers, with day care facilities, funded by the Early Childhood Development Project has been steadily progressing through the pandemic in 2020 and will be completed in 2021.
These centers will provide much needed ECD services and day care to children in the area, part of the ongoing initiative of the ECD Project to enhance equitable access to quality ECD services to all.
Listed below is the progress at the start of 2021.
District Hospital Premises in Monaragala District:
On site visit in 20th August 2020
January 2021 civil works were completed.
Hulannuge, Lahugala Division, Ampara District
Ground breaking ceremony on 22nd July, 2020
Progress as of January 2021 in Lahugala, Ampara District
Elahera Divisional Secretariat premises, Polonnaruwa – current status
KiliKarachchi, Kilinochchi District – current status
Construction work in progress
Outer circular road, Vavuniya, Vavuniya District – current status
Manmunaipattu Division, Batticaloa – current status
Construction work in progress
In addition to the above, the construction work on the New ECD centers, with day care facilities, in the following districts are ongoing and will be completed in 2021:
Buddhagaya road, Mahiyangannaya, Badulla District
Puttalam District, Secretariat Premises
Rattota Divisional Secretariat Premises, Matale District
Neervely South, Pootharmadathukkaladdi, Kopya, Jaffna District
Hanguranketha, Nuwara Eliya District