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Government embarks on giant project by Jayampathy Jayasinghe The government is embarking on a gigantic project to build around 20,000 to 30,000 temporary houses for displaced persons affected by the tsunami disaster, a spokesman for the Commissioner General for Essential Services told the Sunday Observer. The houses are expected to be built in the affected areas of the Southern and the Northern provinces to ease the acute housing problem caused by the tsunami victims. The idea behind the move is that it will take at least two years to build 20,000-30,000 permanent houses, for these people. But as far as the temporary houses are concerned they can be built within a period of six months. Although adequate tents have been provided to affected families, many prefer to live in temporary houses as they are not accustomed to live in tents like in the west. Meanwhile, the government is looking for suitable land in higher elevations to build these houses. The houses will be built with imported wood and roofing sheets as local materials would not be sufficient, the spokesman said. Meanwhile, the government has had two rounds of talks with Inte rnational Organisation of Migration (IOM) and the UNHCR and several NGOs. |
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