Relief to Vakarai

Razeena RAZICK

COLOMBO: Steps have been taken to send funds and essential foods for displaced in Vakarai, Batticaloa by the Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure Development Ministry.

The destructions triggered by the LTTE in Vakarai recently claimed many lives and made 19,731 families homeless and 71,631 persons were displaced. The Ministry took immediate steps to provide the essential to these people in dire need.

Secretary to the Ministry M.S. Jayasingha said that they would distribute ten metric tons of goods among the displaced persons. These food items include rice, flour, sugar, dhall, milk powder, noodles, variety of biscuits, soap and mosquito coils valued at Rs. one billion.

He further said that he had received Rs. one million as relief to distribute among the displaced persons. They have stored the dry foods to use in case of emergency, he added.