An estimated sum of Rs. 10,400 million has been allocated by the Government for three major irrigation projects for Wayamba, Southern and Eastern Provinces which are at present under way. It is expected to successfully complete these major irrigational projects at the end of 2010. Under this massive irrigational development projects the Deduru-Oya scheme for Wayamba, the Rambaken-Oya scheme for the East and the Menik-Ganga scheme for south will be irrigated. The Ministry of Irrigation is implementing this project with the funds allocated by the Central Government and is expected to supply 60 per cent of water necessary for irrigation in these three provinces. In accordance with the Mahinda Chintana Concept the Yan-Oya project which is a novel irrigational scheme is expected to cover the North Central and a part of Eastern Province, supplying irrigational facilities to 36,000 acres of newly cultivated paddy land and to uplift the living standards of 30,000 farmer families in the two provinces. Under the massive Yan-Oya irrigation project Horowpotana and Kahatagasdigiriya areas also would be irrigated and 30 per cent of the construction work at Ellepotha has been successfully implemented. The project is expected to reconstruct and renovate and fill 25 large scale tanks and 100 small scale tanks for irrigation. This Yan-Oya project is totally under the survey of the irrigation department and the total estimated cost is Rs. 900 million, said the Secretary to the Ministry of Irrigation A.D.S. Gunasekara. After the era of ancient Kings the Yan-Oya irrigational project implemented is the largest and the bund across the Oya will be 2350 metres, in length, 8 metres wide and 20 metres high, according to the project engineer G.V. Ratnasara. He said that the thickness of the bund is 254 millimetres and, the water would be released from the Left and Right banks of the project. This Yan-Oya irrigation project is implemented on an initiative of President Mahinda Rajapaksa as a result of the two provinces farmers requests.