The Sri Lanka Air Force conducted the Sri Pada Route Cleaning programme for the 3rd consecutive year. The clean-up programme was launched on 11th March 2020 to mark 69th Anniversary of Sri Lanka Air Force. The aim of the project was to clean up the paths leading up to the peak of the “Sripadasthanaya”, a religious site that has been subject to reverence by people both from home and abroad.

The “Siri Pada” season starts with the 'Siripa Karuna’ period which commences after the Uduvap Poya Day in December and this draws thousands of devotees who flock here from all over the country and world.  These devotees however, also leave behind large amounts of waste, which threatens to destroy the beauty and the bio diversity in and around the holy site.

The team engaged in religious activities at the Maussakelle Saman Devalaya on the eve of the 11th before proceeding to the Peak. At dawn on the 12th of March, two SLAF teams of over 150 personnel who were at the peak started collecting waste along the paths leading down to Ratnapura and Nallathanniya. The campaign was led by the Commanding Officer of SLAF Combat Training School at Diyatalawa, Air Commodore Chaminda Wickramaratne.