Loss making estates to be leased
by Mohammed NAALIR
The tea estates belonging to the Janatha Estate Development Board
won't be privatised, State Resources and Enterprise Development Minister
Dayashritha Tissera said.
He said that plans are afoot to lease 6 tea estates which are running
at losses, to 30 years under the joint enterprise development scheme.
The Minister said that the Kolapathana, Levelan, Lulkandura,
Mahavila, Nagastenna, Rahatungoda, Rookwood, Bopitiya, Bohill,
Dhelthota, Galaboda, Greatweli, Hanthana, Hope and Kandal-Oya estate
comes under the Janatha Estate Development Board.
We have taken steps to lease these estates to 30 years to local
investors to develop them under the joint enterprise development scheme,
he added.
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