Sri Lanka to Set up an Aviation Complex at Makeshift Airstrip Built by the LTTE in Iranamadu

26th March 2010, www.news.lk

The makeshift airstrip built by the LTTE in the jungles of the North is to be turned into an aviation complex under government post-war reconstruction plans. The proposal is part of a regional development plan for the Northern Province.

The LTTE built an airstrip in the thick jungles of Iranamadu near an irrigation reservoir, when the area was under their control.

At a seminar organised by the Sri Lanka Shippers’ Council to brief investors on investment opportunities, the Director of Geographical Information Systems of the Urban Development Authority said that the Government will develop the airstrip into an aviation complex. It will be equipped with a training and research institute.

Another former Tiger stronghold in Mullaitivu, on the northeast coast, has been earmarked as a centre for fisheries-based engineering
equipment industry and for sea-based eco-tourism.