"No grants or loans harming to government policies. " Said Minister Maithripala Sirisena We are on firm position to avoid getting grants or loans which are not align with the national development policies under this government, said Hon.Maithripala Sirisena, Minister of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services at the contract awarding ceremony of DSWRPP was held on 16th July 2009 at Mahaweli Authoriy building. Minister further stated that, need of the farsighted plans for the project to safeguard the threaten lives and properties in downstream of high risk dams is mandatory requirement. Multisector Water Resource Planning is one of the project components. Project is able to get overseas high tech consultancy services for this component from the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC) in Australia. This company was qualified to provide the consultancy service to the project. The component is being addressed the improvement of national and provincial water resources investment planning, development of national water use plan, a mundeni Aru Basin development plan and updating of revised Mahaweli Water Resources Development Plan. Environment & social assessment, water resources modeling and other related studies and analysis will be carried out by the SMEC consultants together with counterpart staff assigned from implementing agencies to work with the consultants. Mr. Ragawan, manager, SMEC for South Asia, Mrs. Kamala Uyanwatta , Act.Secratery of Ministry of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services, and Mr. D.C.S. Elakanda, Project Director of the DSWRPP took part at the ceremony.