Rambukkana Development Plan (2023-2033)

The Urban Development Authority was established in 1978 as the institution that regulates urban development at the national level in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, in accordance with the Urban Development Authority Act No. 41 of 1978, as applicable to the entire island, the foremost duties of the institute are to prepare, implement and promote integrated plans for social, economic, and, environmental improvement in the areas that the Minister in charge declared as development areas. Goal of the Urban Development Authority is “Towards Planned, Sustained and Adored Urbanization” by providing the opportunity to get development benefits through new development projects for the well-being of the people living in the areas demarcated and declared by the Urban Development Authority. The Rabbukkana urban area has been Gazetted under the Gazette no. 678/3 dated 02.09.1991 as an Urban Development Authority area. Pinnawala has been Gazetted as a tourism Zone under the Gazette No 1438/18 dated 28.06.2000. This is the only gazetted tourist zone in the Kegalle District of Sabaragamuwa Province. After that, the entire Rambukkana Pradeshiya Sabha area has been declared as an Urban Development Authority area under Gazette No. 1144/25 dated 11.08.2000. Among the aforementioned urban development areas, the Kegalle District Office of the Urban Development Authority has prepared the development plan only for the 3.8 square kilometers Rambukkana urban area, which was completed in the year 2020. Preparation of the new plan was started to cover the entire Rambukkana Pradeshiya Sabha area due to the reasons, the 2020 plan is limited to the urban area only, Development potentials are not well utilized, and, even though the entire Rambukkana Pradeshiya Sabha area has been declared as an Urban Development area of the Urban Development Authority, no development plan has been prepared so far. This plan, which will be effective in the period of 2023-2033, will further develop the main economic potentials of the area such as the agriculture industry and the tourism sector, thereby it has introduced development strategies and guidelines to strengthening the people of the area economically, and using the natural environment for development through formal conservation measures.