The government will construct flats comprising 10,000 housing units within the next two years, Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said.
Addressing a business gathering today (Mar 05), he noted that families who were forcefully removed from squatter areas in Colombo, will be relocated in these flats.
"The government has constructed 15,000 housing units during the last three years to provide shelter to these families," the Minister of Megapolis and Western Development said.
Speaking further, he claimed that upto 90 percent of temporary dwellings in squatter areas would be removed as a result of this project.
(Reporting by Damith Wickramasekara)
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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