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A team of the undergraduates of the 2020 Intake of the Faculty of Business, the University of Moratuwa won the Championship of the ADCON 2021 Inter-University Advertisement competition, which was held on 19th November 2021 at the 80 Club of Colombo. The event was organized by the Department of Marketing, Faculty of Management and Finance of the University of Ruhuna.

AdCon is an advertising focused inter-university competition in Sri Lanka which focuses on providing a platform for the young undergraduates in the State University system to unveil their creative marketing skills while forming a strong platform for creating a sound relationship with the corporate sector of the country.

Eng. D. D. Prabath Witharana, veteran author and the former Head of the Department of Agrarian Development donated a valuable set of books to the ITUM Library, recently. The donation covers publications on Watershed management, Village tank cascades, Agro-ecology, Irrigation systems of Sri Lanka, Climate change, Paddy as an ecosystem and Agrarian Law. According to the author, the main objectives of these publications were to facilitate integrated water resource management and development, to minimize adverse effects of climate change and to improve water and land productivity etc.  The publications highlight the continuous efforts made by the author, Eng. Prabath Witharana during his 35 years of professional career in water resources engineering in Sri Lanka. We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of these books to the ITUM library which would be of great value, especially to the Civil Engineering Technology students of ITUM. The books were handed over to the consultant Librarian of ITUM and the Chairperson of the Library Development Committee in the presence of several members of the academic staff.