President directs Ministers to visit IDP villages

Lakshmi DE SILVA

President Mahinda Rajapaksa had directed the Ministers to visit the IDP welfare villages in Vavuniya and oversee the facilities being provided to the IDPs and take steps to find out whether there were any shortcomings, Trade Commerce and Cooperatives Minister Bandula Gunawardhana visiting Vavuniya told the Daily News yesterday.

He said each day a Minister visited the IDP welfare villages for the past two months and had been successful in seeing the progress made in providing food and other essential services to over 200,000 IDPs housed in these villages.

Yesterday Ports, Shipping, Aviation and Irrigation Minister Chamal Rajapaksa had visited the IDP villages.

Minister Gunawardhana and Power and Energy Minister Mahindananda Alutgamage also visited the IDP villages to study the progress of the Lak Sathosa and Mini-Coops in addition to the five Lak Sathosa branches already established in the welfare villages in Manik Farm, Cheddikulam, Kathirgamar Puram.