Land deeds for 45 families in Wickramasinghapura

Mohammed Naalir

BATTARAMULLA: Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardane handed over title deeds to 45 families who were living in Wickramasinghapura and Pelawatta for a long period without any legal entitlement to their lands at a meeting at Pelawatta.

These people were undergoing immense hardships and were unable to obtain State assistance in case of any disaster due to lack of a land deed.

As a result of this, problem being brought to the attention of the Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardane by the residents of this area the Minister instructed the Urban Development Authority to solve the problems of these residents.

Measures were taken to allocate deeds under the programme of distributing houses for those who live below the poverty line in urban housing schemes.

Minister Gunawardane said every family in this country should possess a plot of land for a house.

Only Government led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa is able to identify the problems of the less privileged. There are ample commercial banks and foreign countries to help the well-to-do but nobody comes forward to help the poor.

What we want to do is to make the poor a privileged segment. Kaduwela, Battaramulla and Pelawatta areas are being subjected to rapid development.

Mayurapada Parivenadhipathi Ven. Walegoda Wimalasiri Thera, Kaduwela Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman G. M. Buddhadasa, Urban Development Authority Acting Director General Prasanna Silva and Kaduwela Pradeshiya Sabha Members Sarath Sumanasekara, Nandasena Amarasena and Richard Balasooriya also participated.