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| Sunday, 16 January 2005 |
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Spadework on housing begins by Lionel Yodhasinghe Government has pledged to provide every displaced family with a decent shelter to restart life anew. The Task Force for Reconstruction (TAFREN) aims at completing these housing projects by June and preliminary work in this regard in several districts has already been started. Identifying land is the most important task and Divisional Secretaries in respective areas are engaged in this process to enable the Surveyor General's Department to mark outer boundaries for proposed housing projects, Surveyor General B.J.P. Mendis told the 'Sunday Observer'. Suitable lands in Galle and Hambantota districts have already been identified and officials led by District Superintendents in the two districts are engaged in marking lands, he said. "Our department is ready to do necessary marking speedily if vacant land in other districts are earmarked without delay. The Government has to purchase land or acquire them as soon as possible to expedite the construction", he said. Acquisition of land would take a long time which would delay the projects. If some philanthropists could donate necessary land for this purpose, the construction could be accelerated, he said. Mendis said that his department can deploy sufficient surveyors to do the work fast if Divisional Secretaries forward necessary prerequisites soon thereby helping speedy construction. |
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