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Sri Lankan resettlement

The Sri Lankan government plans to settle two thousand Sinhalese families in the Vavuniya South Divisional secretariat division situated at the border of the Northern province, reports Seithy.com.

The Sinhala families are to be resettled under the 'Humanitarian Agricultural Action Project', which purports to address the lack of agricultural activities in the North. As well as providing an acre of land for each Sinhala family, the government has also provided modern agricultural  to augment the self sustenance of the newly settled Sinhalese.

Meanwhile the Agricultural Development Minister, Mahinda Yapa Abewardena, has pledged Rs. 10 million to cater for the basic needs of the new settlers.

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