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Estate workers to get title deeds for houses by M. P. Muttiah Estate Infrastructure and Community Development Minister Dilan Perera said yesterday that President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga had agreed in principle to establish an Upcountry University. He said that the Presidential Secretariat would issue a press release next week on the appointment of a Presidential Task Force on the establishment of the university. Minister Dilan Perera said that he had a meeting last week with the upcountry intellectuals and scholars to discuss the proposal. Eastern University's former Vice Chancellor Prof. M.S. Mookiah, Prof. S.Chandrasekeran, S. Sinnathamby, Dr.S. Chandrapose and several others participated at the discussion and submitted their suggestion. He said that this proposal was drawn on the basis of the proposal submitted by them. The Task would consist of academics, several ministry secretaries and the University Grants Commission. Minister Perera alleged that Ceylon Worker's Congress leader Arumugam Thondaman and Parliamentarian Faizer Mustapha were responsible for the sorry plight of unemployed young men and women who were eagerly waiting to get teaching appointments. He said that because of their in-fighting the plantation community had suffered much. ``Now both of them are united in supporting the Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe at the Presidential Polls. Why can't they reach a settlement on the appointment of teachers to the plantation areas. I have a formula for mediation and hope they both would be flexible to accept it," he said. He said that title deeds would be given to the houses of the plantation workers within two weeks. He said that he had to search for the file and he found it in a corner of a cupboard with dust. He alleged that officials at the ministry had delayed the issue of title deeds without any valid reasons. This problem had existed for more than three decades and he was able to solve it within a week, he said. |
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