Housing facilities for Sinhalese in Jaffna
Members of North East Sinhala IDP Association (NESIA) have written to
the Minister of Re-settlement D M Swaminathan seeking his intervention
to arrange proper housing facilties for the Sinhalese who have been in
IDP status in Nawakkuliya in Jaffna since 2010.
NESIA has highlighted that although all other communities have been
properly settled and had been given basic infrastructure no such
treatments have been extended to Nawakkuliya Sinhala village to date.
Noting that they have been in a state of displacement since 1983
black July riots, the IDPs have stated that none of the governments
looked into their woes. They have asked Minister Swaminathan to assist
them in building permanent houses in their village or to help them
become beneficiaries under the on going Indian Government funded housing
program. |