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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

HAMBANTOTA NEW PORT


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HAMBANTOTA
Province Southern Province
District Hambantota District
Elevation 3 ft (1 m)
Population (2001)
- Total 11,213
Time zone +05:30


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Hambantota District

Area
-Land
-Inland Water 2,609 km²
2,496 km²
113 km²
Population 526,414 (2001)
Ethnic Groups
-Sinhalese
-Sri Lankan Tamil
-Sri Lankan Moor
-Indian Tamil
-Burgher
-Sri Lankan Malay
-Other
510,965 (97.1%)
1,869 (0.4%)
5,646 (1.1%)
424 (0.1%)
88 (0.0%)
7,255 (1.4%)
167 (0.0%)
Religions
-Buddhism
-Hinduism
-Islam
-Roman Catholic
-Other Christian
-Other
509,987 (96.9%)
1,369 (0.3%)
13,076 (2.5%)
924 (0.2%)
949 (0.2%)
109 (0.0%)

Hambantota District is located on the southeastern coast of

Sri Lanka, in the Southern Province. It has an area of

2,593 km² and a very dry climate. The district capital is

Hambantota town; the administrative headquarters are

located there as well as the center of salt production.

Other prominent towns include Tangalle, Ambalantota,

Tissamaharamaya, and Beliatta.

Before modern development took place after the country

gained independence in 1948, the agriculture in the

district was characterised by swidden cultivation (chena or

slash and burn), and to some extent paddy cultivation on

non-irrigated land. In the highlands, kurakkan - a grain

used to make an eatable paste - was cultivated along with

other grains such as corn. Leonard Woolf's 'Village in the

Jungle' provides a highly interesting and insightful

account of the people, the land and issues of concern

during the British Colonial period as he worked as an

assistant government agent for Hambantota.

Demographics
Hambantota District has a population of 525,370 of whom 96%

are considered rural residents. Some 13.4% of the labor

force of 244,847 is unemployed - in comparison to the

national average of 8.3%. Of those employed, 42.2% are in

the Agricultural sector, 23.3% in Industry with the

remaining 34.5% working in the Services sector. {Source:

Department of Census & Statistics - Sri Lanka}

Government and Politics
The idea to develop Hambantota into an international port

has been in the air for over 30 years.

Hambantota is the electoral district of the current

President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Hambantota

District comprises of Beliatta, Mulkirigala, Tangalle and

Tissamaharama electoral wards.

Hambantota is also scheduled to host the Commonwealth Heads

of Government Meeting in 2013


Hambantota was badly devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean

Tsunami, which was reported to have killed a large

proportion of the town's population.


Economy
Hambantota is currently undergoing a major infrastructural

development phase with an international airport,

international port, railway line and tele-cinema village

was built, amongst other development.

36,000 ships pass Hambantota every year because it is

only 6-10 nautical miles north of the major east-west

global shipping route across the Indian Ocean.

If Hambantota is developed into a world-class port, ships

could anchor there to re-stock on food, water, fuel, etc.

and save up to 3 days off their journey to Singapore.

It is estimated that 20% of the ships would call at

Hambantota Port. 50,000 jobs will be created.


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