Answer to Question #229821 in Management for Sayu

Question

What is the chaexplain it?rter of reconstructing an old road (in vavuniya ,Sri lanka)

Answer 1

Roads selected for the improvement are widely distributed throughout the Vavuniya district of the NP. A total of 07 C class roads including 82 km have been identified within the district. These include both sealed and gravel roads in dilapidated conditions. The majority of the roads start from the rural areas of the district and pass through residential, agricultural, and forested areas including paddy fields, banana plantations, other mixed cultivations, scrublands, and forest patches. Administratively Vavuniya district is divided into four divisions namely Vavuniya south (Tamil), Vavuniya south (Sinhala ), Vavuniya North and Vengalacheddikulam

Madukanda-Iratperiyakulam Road 24. A total of 15.2 km of road starts from Madukadna junction. Initial sections of the road pass through scrub and forested areas with Chena cultivations and home gardens. Several irrigation canals cross the proposed road at different locations. The middle section of the road includes low-density human settlements, banana plantations, paddy fields, and scrub forests. The present situation of the road is fairly good with no proper drains or pavements. Large extents of paddy fields, small coconut plots, Chena cultivations, residences, and home gardens are located in the end section beside the road. Electricity is available throughout the road except at the termination section. None of the highly environmentally sensitive areas are located beside the road. The proposed road terminates at Iratperiyakulam. 25. The terrain of the road is flat. The existing average carriageway is 5 m in width and d existing average RoW of the road is 10 -11 m. There are thirty-three culverts along the road. These include thirty-one pipe culverts and two slab culverts. Out of the total culverts, 4 and 12 are proposed for reconstruction and repair respectively. A bridge is located at the 12.1 km chainage of this road and it is proposed to replace this with a 2 lane single-cell 4x3 RCBC. 26. The project intends to rehabilitate and widen the existing single-lane section with shoulders of 1 m on each side, earth or line drains (1 m and 0.75 m width, respectively) and a proposed average carriageway of the road is 5 m where required. The developed road will have a new RoW of 10 m throughout. NPVAC010- Mahiankulam-Pallamadu Road . The total length of the road is 13.6 km. This road starts from Mahiankulam close to the railway crossing and passes through sealed, concrete, and gravel sections. The land use beside the road includes mixed coconut cultivations, banana plantations, large extents of paddy fields, grasslands, teak cultivations, home gardens, and residences. Most of the area beside the road contains paddy fields. A branch of the Parangi Aru crosses the road closer to the terminal point at Pallamadu. . The terrain of the road is flat with the rural residential and agricultural environment. The existing average carriageway is 5 m in width and the existing average RoW of the road is 10 -11 m. There are fifty-four culverts along the road including forty-eight pipe culverts and five slab culverts. Of the total culverts, nine are proposed for reconstruction. A bridge is located at 14 km chainage of this road and it is proposed to replace with a 2 lane 13.5 m span PSCT beam deck bridge. . The project intends to rehabilitate and widen the existing single-lane section with shoulders of 1 m on each side, earth or line drains (1 m and 0.75 m width, respectively) and the proposed average carriageway of the road is 5 m where required. The developed road will have a new RoW of 10.5 m throughout. NPVAC014- Puthoor-Palamoddai Road . The total length of the Puthoor - Palamoddai road is 24 km and passes through both sealed and gravel sections. The land use beside the road includes rural residential and agricultural areas including home gardens, coconut and banana cultivations, large extents of paddy fields, grasslands, Che na cultivations, scrub, and forested areas. The electricity is available over most of the area except at the termination section. None of the high environmental sensitive areas are located beside the road. A medium-sized water stream crosses the road at the terminal section of the road. 31. The terrain of the road is flat and passes through the rural residential, agricultural, and forested areas. The existing average carriageway is 5 m in width and the existing average RoW of the road is 1 2-16 m. There are twenty-nine culverts (28 Pipe/1 Slab) located along the road. Of these total culverts, six are proposed for reconstruction while nine are proposed for repair.