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| Sunday, 30 June 2002 |
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Crumbling houses at Diyawara village will be rebuilt soon The houses in the 50th Diyawara village at Kalpitiya Constructed three years ago by the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources during the previous regime, are crumbling as they were not built up to required standards. Minister Mahinda Wijesekera told Lankapuvath that steps would be taken to rebuild them soon and added that the UNF Government had to bear the burden of solving problems created by the previous regime. A village on a 40-acre site had been set up at Kandakuliya, in Ravichankaduwa, where 150 houses had been built. But all those houses were now in a dilapidated condition. The authorities had charged a sum of Rs. 50,000 from each house recipient with the promise of handing over a completed house. But most of the houses were incomplete. Roofs of some of them had collapsed. The payment to contractors had been channelled through the Kalpitiya Divisional Secretary. The original contractor had been changed later on political influence, funds had been authorised for a community centre, public market and other infrastructure facilities but none of them had been provided. Minister Mahinda Wijesekera was informed about this pathetic situation and he had pledged to solve these problems next month. |
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