New Minister gives new deadline
April 29, 2010 07:29 am
The new minister of
resettlement Milroy Fernando says that all displaced families will be resettled
within the next six months. The minister said in Vavuniya that more than 80,000
displaced people living in resettlement camps would be resettled.
Minister Milroy
Fernando who made his first visit to the resettlement camps was told by
Premaratna Sumathipala, the former co-ordinator of the Resettlement Ministry
that the officials of the ministry of resettlement were not efficient enough in
delivering the expected outcome.
Mr.Sumathipala said
that such officials who he believed were associates of the former minister in
charge of resettlement need to be replaced.
A number of
displaced people said that they had not been adequately compensated.
Minister Fernando
promised to look in to all compensation claims and adequately address their
grievances.
He further said not only those who have been displaced by fighting would be resettled but also those who braved the war in their villages would also be benefited.
BBC
