37 Houses have been damaged fully and partly due to the tornado situation occurred between 6 pm of 21st November 2008 till 10am on the following day in and around No.66/E Thilaka Udagama of Gonapinuwala Divisional Secretariat in Galle District.
175 persons from 37 families displaced by tornado and temporarily sheltered at Sri Sunandaramaya temple at Beratuduwa. Prepared food reliefs have been provided to those families by the Divisional Secretariat of Gonapinuwala and temporary tents have been provided by Sri Lanka Red Cross Society. Meanwhile medical team with doctors has been sent there by Karapitiya Teaching Hospital for necessary medical treatments.
Due to this disaster situation the road was blocked by fallen trees and right now the road has been cleared and temporary electricity supply has been provided to the temple where the families took refugee. The roof of the village community center was badly damaged and damage caused to the agriculture is being calculating so far.
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Situation report of Flood – Galle District Commencing from : 30th May 2008 and details of the divisions affected Summary at 1000 hours on 07th June 2008
Affected DS Division
Affected number of GN divisions
Number of families affected
Number of persons affected
Neluwa
25
400
2000
Nagoda
35
4020
21120
Tawalama
18
900
4500
Niyagama
09
1152
5760
Baddegama
24
834
3083
Welivitiya Divitura
14
3064
11259
Elpitiya
14
1545
6670
Total
139
11915
54392
On 6th June 2008;125 boxes containing with high protein biscuits provided by UNICEF in collaboration with Ministry of Human Rights and Disaster Management; received by District Secretary of Galle and have been handed over to the RDHS for distribution among the needy families at the health clinics conducted by Department of Health Services.
How does the flood occurred on 03.05.2007 as a result of heavy rains affect to the Galle district
For houses
2341
No of houses flooded
7272
Earth slips
296
No of families affected
11971
No of persons affected
19360
No of persons killed
08
Injuries
17
No of persons
Damages to plantations
862
Damages to business
434
Bridge
32
Government Institutes
06
Thundering
28
Lighting
02
This chart is prepared based on the date given by the Divisional Secretariats
Galle Distrct was One of the Major District Affected by Tsunami
Galle district was one of the major districts affected by tsunami disaster of 26th December 2004, analyzing the impact of tsunami disaster there were 2886 houses partially and fully damaged within the buffer zone while an approximately twelve thousand number of houses fully and partially damaged out of the buffer zone. District Secretariat of Galle was able to complete its targeted task of reconstruction of fifteen thousand numbers of houses within the district with the support of national and international donor community.
There were two major housing reconstruction programmes were launched by the government, donor driven housing reconstruction programme for the families affected within the buffer zone and resettling them elsewhere and owner driven housing reconstruction programme where the owners themselves reconstruction their houses on the same location with the government and non governmental financial assistance. Under the donor driven housing programme there were 3740 houses constructed within 104 housing sites throughout the district and almost all the families affected by tsunami having received an alternative house for better living. Meanwhile there were certain problems arisen with regards to the quality of the donor built houses. Thus with the financial assistance from the German Government and the courtesy of Tsunami Housing Support Project (THSP) of Gtz, we were able to launched a wider survey of assessment of quality of the donor driven housing programme. The findings of the survey have been stored in computer software specially prepared for this purpose by Ruhuna University and the data’s are available with the district secretariat for future development and planning activities. Government and non government organization as well as donor agencies could be obtain all these data’s for future development activities in housing sector. Facing challenges
Special programme for the development of Galle City which destroyed by the tsunami disaster of 26th December 2004, was formed under the guidance of District Secretary and have been presented to the Provincial Political Authority followed by special presentation to the Minister of Urban Development and Sacred Places Development. Thus this programme was initially accepted by National Political Leadership and H.E.Mahinda Rajapaksa – President of Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka, has been allocated one hundred million rupees from the annual budget for the development of Galle City during the year 2009.
Hon. Basil Rajapaksa Member of Parliament and Senior Advisor to the H.E. President of Sri Lanka and take keen interest of speedy implementation of Galle City Development Programme and Minister of Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure Development Hon. Gunarathna Weerakoon and Chief Minister of Southern Province together with number of political leaders and officials were gathered for preliminary discussion for this programme very recently at the district secretariat under the leadership of District Secretary.
