Govt allocate Rs. 3 billion for Northern development [November 16 2008]

The government allocated Rs. 3 billion from the budget to construct 80,000 houses and to reconstruct all damaged schools, hospitals, roads, bridges in cleared areas of the Northern Province. In addition another Rs. 500 million had been allocated for resettlement of the internally displaced people of Mannar.

Minister of Constitutional Affairs D.E.W. Gunasekara and Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs Karu Jayasuriya are tasked with similar tasks after liberating Eastern Province and restoring civil administration within 180 days.