City of KANDY

City of KANDY

A living heritage

Surrounded by densely forested mountain’s natural water ways are common sight in senkadagalapura or Kandy. Its desirability does not confine to its strategic viability of natural barricades: mountains, forests and water (giri durga, wana durga and jala durga) due to witch it was chosen as the capital of kandiyan kingdom. Today it is a popular tourist destination that attracts both local and foreign crowed to its history, culture, tradition, political atmosphere, people and nature blessed by the presence of the Sacred Tooth Relic. Identifying the “outstanding universality” of Kandy UNICEF declared it a world heritage in 1988. A world heritage undoubtedly claims for future signaling for the necessary of preserving it by the present generations. On the other hand any nook in the world cannot ignore or avoid change and transition of course the city of kandy requires to be developed and to be on par with the other major cities in the world energizing the tourist industry of the country but along with its cultural and religious value preserved and protected. This may sound challenging yet Sri Lanka is determined to take up the challenge.

If you are visiting to Sri Lanka don’t forget to visit this living heritage city Kandy.

Minister of mass media and information Keheliya Rambukwella born and bred in the area commented on the ways and means of developing the city of kandy while preserving its multiple elements for the future generations as follows: “it is with happiness mixed with pride that I express my opinion on the future of the city of kandy because I have born and bred in kandy and my politics is centered on the central province. Also as a cabinet minister I have a national responsibility regarding this matter. Kandy has a historical value and certain heritages that are equal to any heritage city in the world. We consider Kandy as on of the most significant heritage cities in the world. As such as we need to a lot to be done a part from giving it a modern outlook that will be required in terms of tourism and investment while preserving the cultural heritage and the history that we talk of and able to be proud of. In other words it is essential to deem modernization truism and search for investment and we cannot forget the background of Kandy particularly the Temple of Tooth Relic which is one of the most venerated place of the Buddhists all over the world. So that is the kind of balance we need to strike concerning the development of Kandy. Kandy city’s major commercial place is Kandy city center (KCC).  A major issue that remains in Kandy is its traffic congestion. As a solution we are going to move the administrative part to the pallekale and also bogambera prison moved to pallekale and built big vehicle park for Kandy.

The railway and the bus stand can be combined by building the bus stand upon the underutilize railway system as it has easy access from Gopallawa and Peradeniya roads. In these process air rights is used instead of land rights introducing a new concept for Sri Lanka.

Along with the railway station 1000 boutiques 150 channeling centers and the fair can be established. All pavements will be cleared of shops and streets sellers they will be given space in the area allocated for the boutiques. So people have all service providers at one place.