Order declaring Ampara Deegavapi as Sacred Area
Made 2008-01-23 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 269) Order under Section 6(2)(b) and Section 21 (2)(b) BY VIRTUE of the powers vested in me by Section 6(2)(b) and Section 21(2)(b) of the Town and Country Planning Ordinance (Chapter 269), I, Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena, Minister of Urban Development and Sacred Area Development, do by this Order: (a) declare that the area of land specified in the Schedule hereto shall be an Urban Development area for the purpose of this aforesaid Ordinance and shall be called “Ampara Deegavapi Sacred Area” ; and (b) direct that an outline scheme shall be prepared for the whole of the area declared to be the Ampara Deegavapi Sacred Area. DINESH GUNAWARDENA, Minister of Urban Development and Sacred Area Development. Colombo, 21st January, 2008. SCHEDULE The deegavapi Sacred Area shall comprise the area of the land described in Part I and Part II of this Schedule, as is set out below: PART I For the purpose of the declaration of the land allocated to the Deegavapi Raja Maha Viharaya belonging to the Deegavapi Sacred Area, under the Town and Country Planning Ordinance, the said land according to then administrative direction fell within the village called Oluvil Division No. 01 in Akkaraipattu in the District of Batticaloa, Eastern Province and as per present administrative boundary division is in the village called Deegavapi in the Divisional Secretary’s Division of Addalachchena in the District of Ampara in the Eastern Province containing a total extent of Acres 585 Roods 0 Perches 07 depicting as lots Nos. 3,4,9,12-21,23-26,20,31 and 33-94 in the Preliminary Plan A 382 made by the Surveyor General and the boundaries of which are given as follows, 2 A I ï¨å´Ì : (I) ï¯¼Æ Êòé Èâ¨å Àò°åºå¾àºòè¨ ÌÄå°Éå¼û °¾Ç°ïÆà ¡ºø �ïÊË ªæÌ� ÀºòÆ 2008.01.23 PART I : SEC. (I) – GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA – 23.01.2008 North: Starting from the meeting place of Lot No. 92573 and 92586 in the Preliminary Plan 3557 on the South-West boundary of the Lot No. 93 in the Preliminary Plan A382 go up to the canal which is met when going along the boundary marked by demarcation stone on the northern boundary of the Lots No. 93 and 94, from there along the right bank of the said canal up to the place where Navakkodyval Odai is met and from there crossing the said Odai and from there up to the meeting point of right bank of the said Odai and the lot No. 49 in the preliminary Plan A 382 and the Lot No. 01 in the Preliminary Plan 6803, thereafter having come up to the Odai along the Southern Boundary of Lots No. 1,2,5 and 6 in the Preliminary Plan 6803 which is met when going down along the right bank of the Odai from there up to the point where the left bank of the Odai and, from there up to Lot No. 10 in the Preliminary Plan 6803 is met when going towards South-East along the boundaries of Lots Nos. 10,11,14,16,19,20 and 22 in the Preliminary Plan 6803, then having come to the meeting point of the right bank of the Odai and the Lots No. 81 and 33 in the Preliminary Plan A 382, and from there up to the point of lot No. 28 in the Preliminary Plan 6803 which is met when going along the said right bank, and from there up to the place when the Lot No. 29 is met when going along the Southern Boundary of Lot No. 28 in the Preliminary Plan 6803. East: Starting from the last point on the aforesaid Northern Boundary up to the last demarcation stone which is met when going in the South-East direction along the East Boundary of Lots Nos. 37, 40, 31, 43 and 41 in Preliminary Plan A382, which is marked by demarcation stones. South: Starting from the last point of the aforesaid Eastern Boundary up to the point of right bank of the canal which is met when going along the boundary marked by demarcation stones on the Southern Boundary of Lots Nos. 41,44 and 46 in the Preliminary Plan A 382, and from there having crossed the canal go up to the point where the bund and the left bank of the canal are met and from there up to the place where the Southern Boundary of Lot No. 68 in the Preliminary Plan A 382 and the canal as well as the bund of the tank are met when going to the west along the Southern Boundary, and from there having gone to the west across the canal, go up to the point where the left bank of the canal, Bund of the tank and Lot No. 68 in the preliminary plan A 382 are meet, from there up to the place where the said Bund of the Tank meets the Thiraye Odai when going to the west along the Southern boundary of the bund, and from there up to the point on the left bank from which starts the Navakkodyval Odai when going towards the North-West direction along the left bank of the Thiraye Odai. West: Starting from the last point of the above Southern Boundary and when proceeding down along the Southern Bank of Navakkodyval Odai, from the starting point of the abandoned road on the left bank of the Navakkodyval Odai to the horizontal line drawn eastward leading to the point of right bank of Navakkodyval Odai and from that point along the above line towards West across Navakkodyval Odai up to the starting point of the abandoned road on the left bank of the Navakkodyval Odai and from that point proceeding along the said road about 60 meters Northward and to the said abandoned road and to the point of Southern Boundary of the Lot No. 94 in the Preliminary Plan No. A 382 and from that point proceeding about 10 meters westward up to the point of Lot No. 92586 in the Preliminary Plan No. 3557 and Lot No. 93 in the Preliminary Plan No. A382 and from that point proceeding Northward westward along the boundary of the Lot No. 92586 in the Preliminary Plan No. 3557 up to the starting point of the above Northern Boundary. PART II Boundary schedule relating to the land reserved for the Deegavapi Rajamaha Vihara containing 31.540 hectares (77 Acres, 3 Roods and 30 Perches) in extent depicted as Lot No. 1 in the Preliminary Plan No. Am 2314 prepared by the Surveyor General for the land called Pallakadu situated in the village of Deegavapi in the Divisional Secretary’s Division of Addalachchena in the Ampara District of the Eastern province is given below to the declared as the land belonging to Deegavapi sacred Area under Town and Country Planning Ordinance. 3 A I ï¨å´Ì : (I) ï¯¼Æ Êòé Èâ¨å Àò°åºå¾àºòè¨ ÌÄå°Éå¼û °¾Ç°ïÆà ¡ºø �ïÊË ªæÌ� ÀºòÆ 2008.01.23 PART I : SEC. (I) – GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA – 23.01.2008 PRINTED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, SRI LANKA. North: From the starting point from the land mark located in the direction of North-West where the Lot No. 41 in the Preliminary Plan No. A382 and the Lot No. 1 in the Preliminary Plan No. Am 2314 meet, up to the sixth(6) land mark when proceeding a distance of above 572 meters from West to East along the boundary demarcated with land marks on the northern boundary of Lot No. 1 in the Preliminary Plan No. Am 2314. East: Starting from the last point of the above Northern Boundary and leading up to the fifth (5) land mark when proceeding a distance of about 500 meters from North to South along the boundary demarcated with land marks on the eastern boundary of the Lot No. 1 in the Preliminary Plan No. Am 2314. South: Starting from the last point of the above Eastern Boundary and leading up to the land tenth (10) land mark on the Boundary of the Lot No. 44 in the Preliminary Plan No. A328 when proceeding a distance of about 935 meters from East to West along the Boundary demarcated with land marks on the Southern Boundary of the Lot No. in the Preliminary Plan No. Am 2314. West: Starting from the last point of the above Southern boundary and leading up to the land mark which in the starting point of the Northern Boundary when proceeding to North-East and North-West along the bound ary demarcated with land marks on the Lot No. 1 Preliminary Plan No. Am 2314. 02-186