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No evacuation of city dwellers - Defence Secy

No one living within Colombo city limits would be sent out but arrangements are being made for them to live in similar environments in the same areas, while the country is propelled forward on the path of development, Defence and Urban Development Ministry Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said yesterday.


Defence Secretary
Gotabhaya
Rajapaksa

He made this observation at an awareness programme held for members of 456 families in Slave Island on the Slave Island Re Development Project at the area’s Convention Hall.

The Defence Secretary said the people in that block of land extending to 6.5 acres, housed 456 families and some owned only a perch.

“They lived in underprivileged conditions.”

“The Urban Development Authority (UDA) initiated this project to expedite the provision of better housing facilities for the people,” he said.

He said the project was for the dwellers who owned the land but the UDA was acting as a responsible mediator between them and TATA Housing Development Company Ltd and 18 SG company to provide them a housing complex and initiate another investment project in the same land. He said most of the tourists and investors visiting the country said the country is clean and fit for investment and these projects would enhance the cleanliness and beauty of the city bringing in more investors and tourists.

The Defence Secretary said this would create more earning opportunities for the public.

He said the trust that would be built in the people by such projects would help create such complexes in other areas in Colombo.

This project which will commence in 2013 is to be completed within two years and each family will be paid Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000 as house rental during this period.

Colombo Mayor A J M Muzammil, UDA chairman Nimal Perera, Sandeep Ahuja from TATA Housing Development Company, Sanyogitha Atir from 18 SG Company, UDA Director General Prasad Ranaweera and architect Nilesh de Silva also spoke.

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