Land demarcation programs in resettled villages

by Dhaneshi YATAWARA

The Ministry of Resettlement has launched land demarcation programs in the resettled villages to solve many issues faced by the villagers.

Under its first phase, officials of the Resettlement Ministry and the Trincomalee District Secretariat marked boundaries of lands belonging to 841 families living in six villages in the Kuchchaweli DS division in the Trincomalee district, an official of the Resettlement Ministry said.

The program covered Irakkandi, Kumburupiddi, Thalappeyar, Iranakeni, Podawakattu and the Thennamarawadi villages.

A meeting in this connection was held at the Kuchchaweli Divisional Secretariat last week headed by Resettlement Minister Milroy Fernando.

Deputy Minister of Resettlement Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, Trincomalee District Secretary Major General (Rtd) T.T.R. de Silva and several other senior officials of the Ministry and District Secretariat participated.

The meeting noted that 438 families belonged to the Thennamarawadi village whereas a less number of families was resettled last year in this village. Minister Fernando directed the Trincomalee District Secretary to resettle the families in their original areas.

Minister Fernando along with Deputy Minister Muralitharan and other senior officials of the Ministry and District Secretariat visited these villages last week. The program will be implemented in other selected resettled villages of the Northern and Eastern Provinces, ministry sources said.