Vavuniya Development Plan (2023-2033)

Development plan is perspective and the Vision for the future development of the city or urban area which presents the existing situation of the urban area’s development – Where are we now? And through the situational analysis, find out the direction change of the development- Where we want to go? Based on this, identify the immediate development needs for the city – What do we need to address on the priority basis? And finally produce the strategies, action projects and the interventions in order to guide and control the development activities – What interventions do we make in order to achieve the Vision. And based on the legal mandate of the Sri Lankan context, Urban Development Authority is the Planning and Implementing agency. The authority has power to prepare the development plans under the amendment No: 04 of 1982, Part II, Section 8A (1) for the urban area which is declared by the Urban Development Authority under the Act No: 41 of 1978, Part I, Section 3 (1). In the series of the urban area declaration, Vavuniya Urban Council area was declared as an urban area on 01.06.1979 under the Gazzette Notification No: 38/16 and Vavuniya urban development area was declared on 26.11.2009 under the Gazzette Notification No: 1629/18 covering local authorities such as Vavuniya Urban Council Area (fully), Vavuniya Tamil Prdeshiya sabha area (Part) and Vavuniya Sinhala Prdeshiya sabha area (Part). And Vavuniya Urban Development Plan was gazette in year 2009. The plan was evaluated. Accordingly, considering the above facts, study area defined a boundary has been delineated as expansion of the urban development limits which was declared as Urban Development Area on 03.10.2023 under the Gazzette Notification No: 2352/09. Accordingly, UDA planned to prepare the development plan for the Vavuniya urban development area by this year 2023 in order to guide and control the urban development activities as well as to achieve the sustainable development goals and to incorporate the Government policy and National physical planning plan 2048.