Supplementary funds amounting to five million rupees were allocated by the Treasury for the Department of Culture and Arts to provide for the “Project of Accomplishment of the Chapter VI of the Mahavamsa”.�The details of the allocation were revealed in a document submitted to Parliament on Tuesday.
The Government has decided to add an extra chapter to the country’s premier historical text to record important social, political, cultural, religious and other events between 1978 and 2010, according to Cultural Ministry sources
