The government is to construct a two-storeyed twin housing complex with 250 housing units along New Moor Street, Jaffna, to relocate 250 internally displaced families.
The Resettlement and Rehabilitation Ministry, in a cabinet proposal said each housing unit measuring 600 square feet would be constructed on a land plot spanning 7.5 acres.
The land had been purchased and donated to the government by a donor, the proposal said.
At present, there are 535 internally displaced families.
Cabinet approval to construct the housing complex had been granted yesterday (Oct 1).
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
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