Villagers return home

Nimal WIJESINGHE Anuradhapura Additional District group correspondent

The majority of villagers who were compelled to leave their native villages due to LTTE threats are now returning home.

Nearly 61 families who had been temporarily taken shelter in Kivulekada since 1999 having fled Mahanikawewa in Kebithigollewa following the LTTE attacks recently returned.

Indigenous Medicine Minister Tissa Karaliyadda with assistance of the Government and Non Governmental Agencies and philanthropic organizations has succeeded in providing these families with funds to renovate their houses, dry rations, furniture, kitchen utensils and other items for infants children and women.

Steps are being taken to provide all infrastructure facilities including the rehabilitation of road network and a bus service.

Minister Karaliyadda said priority would be given to revive educational and healthcare facilities to the villagers in Mahanikawewa and a number of other nearby villages.