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President appoints high powered team:

Accelerated development in Jaffna

An 11 member high powered team comprising Ministers and Parliamentarians has been appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to accelerate the development and resettlement process in the Jaffna district.

Team members and their respective Divisional Secretariat Divisions
Mahindananda Aluthgamage (Jaffna and Murukkan), Jagath Pushpakumara (Kopai) Rohitha Abeygunawardena (Sandilipai) Mahinda Amaraweera (Nallur), Premalal Jayasekara (Delft), Duminda Dissanayake (Point Pedro), Jayaratne Herath (Udvil and Thelippalai), Hussain Bahaila (Chelanai and Kayts), Vadivel Suresh (Karainagar and Chankanai), Lasantha Alagiyawanna (Chavakachcheri) and Arjuna Ranatunga (Karaveddi)

They will be directly in charge of the supervision of development and resettlement work in 15 Divisional Secretariat Divisions in the District.

The team members main responsibility will be to identify the urgent problems and issues in the respective divisions and take measures to resolve them and uplift the living standards of the people.

On President’s instructions, the team members attended a special meeting presided by Social Service and Social Welfare Minister Douglas Devananda, and attended by Northern Governor Maj. Gen, G.A. Chandrasiri and Jaffna Government Agent K. Ganesh at the Jaffna District Secretariat yesterday. Power Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage addressing the meeting said out of 35,000 people displaced from Jaffna district 17,000 have been already re-settled in their original villages and steps would be taken to resettle the balance too very soon.

The Ministers present wanted unattended problems in the areas to be brought to their immediate notice.

Where solutions are needed from ministries, steps would be taken to send ministry representatives to Jaffna to find on the spot solutions.

Many areas including the uplift of infrastructure facilities, livelihood development, education and health facilities gained special attention at this meeting.

Aluthgamage said re-settled people in Jaffna had requested that their relatives resident in Vavuniya Welfare Camps be sent back to live will their families and early steps would be taken to heed to this request and release the relevant people from the welfare villages.


Resettlement for over 41,000 IDP families from Oct 22

Approximately 41,685 Internally Displaced Persons from more than 12,000 families originally from districts in the Northern Province will be resettled in their home areas from October 22, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Ministry sources said.

Vavuniya: 8,643 IDPs

Mannar: 6,631 IDPs

Mullaitivu: 16,394 IDPs

Kilinochchi: 10,017 IDPs

Accordingly, 8,643 IDPs representing 2,583 families from Vavuniya district, 6,631 IDPs belonging to 2,644 families from Mannar district, 16,394 IDPs of 4,415 families from Mullaitivu district and 10,017 IDPs from 2,453 families from the Kilinochchi district will be resettled.

These people belong to a total of 118 Grama Niladhari divisions from 10 Divisional Secretariats in the three districts.

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