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Up-country leaders commend the budget Ceylon Worker's Congress Assistant Secretary and Badulla District Parliamentarian N. Vadivel Suresh said the allocation of Rs.2000 million to the estate sector would change the landscape of plantation sectors. He said that this was the first time the plantation area had been taken into account in the budget proposals. He hoped the 50,000 housing units would considerably improve the living conditions of the estate workers. Upcountry People's Front leader and Nuwara Eliya District Parliamentarian P. Chandrasekeran said that the allocation to the plantation sector was the highest in the last ten years. If the plans were implemented properly it would be a turning point in the lives of the plantation workers. Ceylon Plantation Worker's Union General Secretary O. A. Ramiah said that President Mahinda Rajapakse did not follow the policies of international monetary institutions. It was totally a people-oriented national budget. The plantation workers fully support and back the President. `Infrastructure in the plantation areas had been long neglected. It is a welcome feature that President Rajapakse allocated a large sum of money for housing and road development that would ease the transport problems of plantation workers and their children who had to walk miles to the towns," he said. Agricultural and Plantation Worker's Congress President R. M. Krishnasamy welcomed the budget and said the plantation workers were grateful to President Mahinda Rajapakse for his efforts to uplift their living conditions. With the construction of 50,000 housing units more than 250,000 estate workers would benefit, he said. (MPM) |
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