Sri Lanka's road rebuilding

A loan from the Philippines-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help Sri Lanka rebuild roads damaged by its civil war. The US$154.4 million credit facility will be put toward projects such as repairing or replacing bridges and around 140km of provincial roads that were damaged in the north of Sri Lanka, where the civil war was most intense.
May 29, 2012 Read time: 1 min
A loan from the Philippines-based 943 Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help Sri Lanka rebuild roads damaged by its civil war. The US$154.4 million credit facility will be put toward projects such as repairing or replacing bridges and around 140km of provincial roads that were damaged in the north of Sri Lanka, where the civil war was most intense. In addition Sri Lanka plans to upgrade 170km of national highways of which 62km are in the North Central Province and 108km in the Northern Province.
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