Lunugala Parish is situated in the Hilly areas of Sri Lanka within the Diocese of Badulla. The parish of Lunugala is essentially a parish surrounded by tea estates numbering approximately 17 of them, at the height of 2245 feet to 3000 above the near sea level.
The labour force involved in the tea industry of Sri Lanka was brought down from South India about 180 years ago by the then rulers of the country the Britishers. The present generation of the estate workers is the descendants of the South Indian Tamils, who continue to contribute a very big share to the economy of the country. But it is so evident that these people who have been considered as the backbone of the country’s economy, they themselves are at the lowest ebb of the society economically, socially and politically. It is so unfortunate that neither the Britishers, nor the subsequent Sri Lankan majority governments paid any interest in uplifting these unfortunate people of the plantation Sector. Though few Non-Governmental Organizations have started working among the plantation areas since recently, the progress made is kept at a snail-pace.
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