The Investment Promotion Minister, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene, submitted a Cabinet memorandum this month, seeking to overrule current legislations that ban sales of private or crown Sri Lankan land to a foreign national or company.
Arguing that the Finance minister has the power to overrule legislation, Abeywardene is looking to acquire legal exemption for 69 acres of land to allow a Singaporean Company to establish a private university and related infrastructure.
The government's attempts to overrule the land legislation for specific companies come as diaspora Tamils continue to have their land appropriated.
Sri Lanka to use census to appropriate lands of diaspora Tamils - (15 December 2013)
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