Displaced to be resettled in Mahaweli System L

An area south of Nedunkerni and Kebettigollewa has been identified for resettlement of about 1,500 to 2,000 displaced families before the end of this year.

“We hope to increase this to 25,000 families immediately thereafter by developing agriculture and livestock breeding to uplift the living standards of these families in Mahaweli System L,” said Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka Director General Dharmasiri de Alwis.

He said before developing agriculture, attention should be paid to developing irrigation. “We decided to facilitate the development of the systems such as H, B, C, D and L under the Mahaweli Ganga Development Project (MGDP),” de Alwis said.

More than 125,000 families in systems H, B, C and G will be resettled. In 1988, the Government decided to add another system under the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka in settling families providing opportunities by utilizing Mahaweli water. Later this system and the development area was called system L which is among the 13 systems under MGDP,” he said. Read more ...

Re-settlement of IDPs in Kilinochchi district accelerated

The process of re-settling 20,000 IDP families in the Kilinochchi district is being accelerated following a Presidential directive. The Army too, had given its clearance last week. Power supplies are being restored to Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Oddisuddan and Nedunkerni from the national grid, Presidential Secretariat sources said.

Following a request made by Minister of Power and Energy W. D. J. Seneviratne, the Government set aside Rs. 1,500 million to restore supplies to the newly liberated districts in the North under the 180-day Uthuru Vasanthaya programme.

Chief Electrical Engineer of the CEB for the North Central Province, Priyantha Gunathilake said that with the restoration of supplies, the High Voltage lines are being drawn between a distance of 30 kms from Mankulam to Kilinochchi and 48 kms from Mankulam to Mullaitivu. Read more ...