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Resettlement under Uthuru Vasanthaya:

Resettlement accelerates

The Presidential Special Task Force on Rehabilitation and Resettlement is taking measures under the Uthuru Vasanthaya program to resettle another 45,000 IDPs in Mannar and Jaffna districts as soon as possible, Resettlement and Diasaster Relief Secretary A.L.M. Haldeen told the Daily News yesterday.

He said the IDPs in 22 locations were given all facilities they need and they were better off than most people in the country. Their health and sanitation facilities were also kept at a high level with French and Indian doctors in addition to local doctors attending to their healthcare. There were sufficient number of ambulances to take patients when the need arose to the Chettikulam or Vavuniya hospitals for treatment.

Resettlement

First batch - Aug 5

Second batch - Aug 27

Third batch - Sept 11

Other facilities like food, water, electricity and sanitation were provided free of charge while post offices, banks, cooperative shops, telecommunication centres and education were also provided for their children by the Government, he said.

Already 8,000 senior citizens have been sent to their relatives and Hindu Maha Sabha had taken care of 117 families of Hindu priests; six Christian priests were handed over to the Archbishop of Colombo, he said.

Another 1,036 orphans were sent to orphanages in Vavuniya and Mannar and around 200 orphaned children were to get the order from the District Judge to be sent to approved orphanages. The Resettlement and Disaster Relief Ministry was also making arrangements to put up a SOS village to help the children in the Manik Farm IDP village, the Secretary said.

The Government had prepared a special program to face the rainy season and improved the toilet facilities and sufficient waste and sewerage disposal methods and clearing roads to make them passable during the rainy season.

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