Foundation stone laying ceremony of Guinness record holder Ananthan memorial swimming pool held
பிரசுரிக்கபட்ட திகதி: 26/05/2017 (வெள்ளிக்கிழமை)
The foundation stone laying ceremony of valvettithurai born multi Guinness record holder V S Kumar Anadhan memorial swimming pool was held today on 26th May 2017, at revady, Valvettithurai.
Minister of Finance and Mass Media Mangala Samaraweera, Sports minister Dayasiri Jeyasekara, deputy minister H.M.S.Harees, State Minister of Child Affairs Mrs Vijayakala Maheshwaran, Northern provincial council Chief Minister C.V.Vikneswarn, Northern provincial council Governor Reginold cooray, Northern provincial council Sports minister T. Gurukularasa, NPC minister M.K.Sivajilingam, Valvettithurai Urban council Secretary Pirasanth, Invites and public were present for this ceremony.
Kumar Ananthan’s first son Mr.Rajan Ananthan, who is presently the director of Google India, had declared open the name of the Annathan memorial swimming pool
It is a mile stone for this small well known coastal town for having a swimming pool of international standard by building in a land which so far did belong to Srilankan Customs.
Building of swimming pool would be taken in three phases, details of which will be posted separately in this web site soon.
Guinness records holder late Mr.Ananthan had swam across Palk Strait in two ways in early 70’s, by commencing and successfully completing his swimming at this same place of Revady, Valvettithurai.
It is the first time Kumar Ananthan’s wife along with his two sons have visited Valvettithurai.
It may be noted that Mr.M.K.Sivajilingam was one of the key person behind the scene to get the land from the Srilankan Customs Authorities to Valvettithurai Urban council to commence building of this memorial swimming pool.
Photo below shows the laying foundation at Revady, Valvettithurai
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K.Balendra (Srilanka)
Posted Date: June 03, 2017 at 17:30
A very good news. Better late than never. Perhaps after training in the pool there may be more to Cross the sea.
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