Nine hundred IDPs to be transferred

14 February 2011 05:59 am

Government has decided to transfer about 900 Internally Displaced Persons ( IDPs) who were living in Punthottam and Sidambarapuram IDP camps to Kilinochchi and Mulaithivu, the Vavuniya government agent said.

They had been living in these camps since 1995.

The decision was taken in order to resettle them in their original habitations and that facilities will also be provided for them in the process of resettlement, he added. (Romesh Madushanka)