Rs 120 m compensation for Deduru Oya displaced
Irangika RANGE
The Government has taken measures to pay compensation amounting to
Rs.120 million to people whose lands have been acquired for the "Deduru
Oya" reservoir, a mega-irrigation project providing irrigation and
domestic water supplies for the benefit of the people in Kurunegala,
Puttalam, Kandy and Matale districts.
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Highways and Road Development Minister T.B.Ekanayake grants
compensation to a displaced person at a function in Yapahuwa
recently. |
At the final phase, 59 families displaced due to the "Deduru Oya"
project were compensated at a cost of Rs.35 million by Highways and Road
Development Minister T.B.Ekanayake at a function held in Yapahuwa
recently.
Minister Ekanayake told the Daily News that the Government has paid
compensation worth Rs.120million for the plots of 410 lands of the
displaced people.
Meanwhile, families displaced due to the project have been given free
land from the Kaluwaragasveva and Randhibandhi Ella areas in the
Puttalam district.
The Minister said that the people who have been relocated in these
areas are engaged in their cultivation successfully while constructing
their own houses using the compensation money.
"We have also compensated the people who have illegally settled in
state owned lands for long time after submitting a special Cabinet paper
for the first time in history," the Minister said.
The Government has acquired 450 hectares to implement the "Deduru Oya"
irrigation project. "We have also obtained manpower, machinery and
vehicles for the construction of the project from local residents.
Therefore, it has resulted in uplifting their living standards," he
said.
Over 500,000 people living in Anamaduwa, Puttalam, Bingiriya,
Nikaweratiya, Mahawa, Yapahuwa, Wariyapola and Galgamuwa, will be able
to meet their present and future domestic, industrial and commercial
water demands through the project. |
