It is reported that the maximum number of workers that the Kandy Municipal Council can deploy to remove the garbage that the lakhs of people who come to Kandy for the Sri Dalada pilgrimage bring and throw away is 142.
Commenting on this, Namal Dissanayake, Chief Engineer for Solid Waste Management of the Kandy Municipal Council, said that the 142 health workers in the Municipal Council have to be deployed on duty 24 hours a day. Therefore, he stated that these workers are seriously exhausted.
Engineer Namal Dissanayake requests those responsible to allow these people to worship the Tooth Relic even after this Dalada pilgrimage if possible.