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Sri Lanka to amend Disaster Management Act [1]

: Sri Lanka has decided to amend the Disaster Management Act soon, the Disaster Management Centre said.

A spokesman for the Centre said that it has decided to amend the Act due to the practical difficulties in the Act. The Act was enacted in 2005 following the tsunami disaster that ravaged the island in 2004.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2009
Colombo Page (Sri Lanka) [2]
Tags:
Natural Disasters [3], Tsunami [4], Disaster Management [5], Sri Lanka [6]

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