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LTTE asks Govt. servants to toe its line
Government Agent Batticoloa, Additional GA Trincomalee and 350 public servants have received instructions from LTTE Political Wing leader S. P. Thamilselvan to be prepared to implement LTTE's development plans for the East shortly.

At two separate meetings in Batticoloa and Trincomalee -- both presided over by the LTTE leader, not by the GAs -- they were also told to be in readiness to activate the LTTE's rehabilitation projects.

The GAs and more than 350 government servants from Trincomalee and Batticoloa districts were summoned to Tamil guerrilla-controlled areas in Sampur in Trincomalee and Kokkadicholai in Batticaloa.

In Batticaloa, the District Secretary R. Monagurusamy himself led the government servants for the meeting while in Trincomalee Additional District Secretary K. Singarayar and Provincial Council Secretary S. Rangaraja were among the senior government officers present for the meeting.

Mr. Thamilselvan wanted the government servants to expedite development activities in the Eastern Province in consultation with the pro-LTTE 'development committees' which have already been set up.

The LTTE called the government servants to act in a similar manner as the Kilinochchi government servants who were working in close co-operation with the LTTE.

The government servants had complained to the LTTE that they were understaffed, lacked funds and other facilities to carry out development work or rehabilitation work in the two districts.

The LTTE had pointed out that the process to establish an interim administration was under way and that funds would be available for development activities while the LTTE had its own proposals which need to be implemented.

In Jaffna, the LTTE conducts similar meetings for government servants on a regular basis and has given detailed instructions to education officials and other administrative service officers, including grama seveka niladharis.

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