A cabinet decision has been taken to lease several plots of land in Muthurajawela owned by the Sri Lanka Land Development Corporation (SLLDC) to Ceylon Electricity Board for laying of an underground pipeline.

In 1997, a portion of 69 acres of Muthurajawela land owned by the Sri Lanka Land Development Corporation was sold to the Ceylon Electricity Board. 

The Yugadanavi power plant is built in one part of this land and the Sobadanavi new power plant is currently being built on the rest of the land. 

The requirements for the construction of underground cooling pipelines and underground fuel pipelines for those fuel plants have been identified. 

Several other plots of land in Muthurajawela owned by the Land Development Corporation have been identified as suitable for that purpose. 

As such, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Urban Development and Housing to transfer the servitude ownership of the said lands to the Ceylon Electricity Board on lease basis with the right to sub-lease.