Govt. to resettle 5,864 IDP families before August 31

The Government has decided to resettle 5,864 IDP families who had fled their villages in Sampathnuwara in Mullaitivu due to LTTE threats, before August 31, Presidential Secretariat sources said.

Minister of Nation Building, Susantha Punchinilame said that following President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s directive that there should be no delay in resettling the IDPs, the process is now being handled within the 180-day Uthuru Vasanthaya program.

A meeting chaired by senior Presidential Advisor and Head of Presidential Task Force Basil Rajapaksa, MP, was held at the Mahaweli Community Training Centre in Anuradhapura in July and it was decided that the Weli Oya IDPs should be resettled before August 31.

The Survey Department has launched a survey of these areas from August 20 and 50 million rupees had been set aside to resettle these 5864 IDP families of whom 3364 families were registered settlers whilst 1500 families were unregistered families. Read more ...