Nov 22, 2012 (LBT) - A Cable Car service is to be introduced to travel to Sri Pada from next year. This has been stated by the Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs  W.D. John Seneviratne.

The Minister has said that a cable car service will be established to connect Erathna town in Kuruwita to the top of the Samanala mountain range. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhist devotees and devotees belong to other faiths trek to the summit of the sacred mountain each year during the season which is normally starts from the Full Moon day falling in the month of December.

The cable car service is expected to promote tourism in the picturesque vicinity and also to ease being experiences by the devotees to climb several kilometers of the Sri Pada mountain. The Minister has also said that he had discussed about the establishment of the cable car service with the Ambassador of Nepal where such services are common and he would visit Nepal next year to study the possibilities in this regard.