President appoints high powered team:
Accelerated development in Jaffna
Nuwan Kodikara 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
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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)
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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
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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. |