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CWC seeks Cabinet level guarantees by P. Krishnasamy An assurance at Cabinet level about adequate rehabilitation and employment opportunities is what CWC leader and Housing and Plantation Infrastructure Minister Arumugam Thondaman will seek at tomorrow's ministerial level meeting to finalise plans for the controversial Upper Kotmale Hydropower Project, the 'Sunday Observer' learns. The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) will request for a Cabinet paper incorporating all assurances with regard to rehabilitation, employment opportunities and other restitutional measures to the families to be displaced, CWC Deputy President and Chairman of the Common Amenities Board, M. S. Sellasamy, told the "Sunday Observer". Many of the plantation families, displaced under similar hydropower projects in the past, were yet to be rehabilitated and assurances in that regard were not kept, said Mr.Sellasamy. This prompted them to insist on the need for a Cabinet paper, he explained. Minister of Power and Energy, Karu Jayasuriya, is to meet his counterparts Minister of Housing and Plantation Infrastructure, Arumugam Thondaman, who is also leader of the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC), and Minister of Environmental and Natural Resources, Rukman Senanayake on finalising arrangements to inaugurate the UKHP in the near future. UKHP Project Director, Shavindranath Fernando, told the "Sunday Observer" that many of the apprehensions of the CWC over the environmental repercussions of the project, relocation and proper rehabilitation of the families had been allayed. He said that they were ready to explain and address any more apprehensions and grievances of the CWC, before deciding on arrangements to inaugurate the project. |
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