Lotus Tower construction to continue

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Following a meeting held with officials of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), the Urban Development Authority (UDA) had agreed to resolve the issue of the acquisition of land for the Lotus Tower within three months.

Earlier, the Ports and Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga said that the land at D. R. Wijewardena Mawatha in Colombo 10 on which the Lotus Tower was being built was owned by the SLPA and that there were no documents to confirm that land had been acquired for the project.

However, the construction of the tower is nearing completion.

The Director General of the TRCSL, M.M. Zuhair said that in this regard the Cabinet had taken a decision to allow the UDA to resolve the land acquisition order.

Accordingly, officials of the three state institutions and the representatives of the Moratuwa University had met at the construction site of the tower two weeks ago, where the UDA had agreed to finalise the land acquisition in three months.

“The SLPA, UDA and the TRCSL agreed to allow the UDA to take care of the matter. Since the land is state owned, the UDA had been instructed to make any extra payments if the SLPA had made improvements to the land on behalf of the TRCSL,” Zuhair said. (Lahiru Pothmulla)

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