Re-accommodation of Cmb slum dwellers, priority

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The re-accommodation of Colombo slum dwellers in the city itself will be treated as a special case by the government and therefore all 65,000 families living in so called garden tenements or ‘wattes’ will be re-located to spacious housing schemes with better facilities, the UPFA said today.

Irrigation and Water Resources Management Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva addressing a UPFA news briefing held in support of Colombo Mayoral candidate Milinda Moragoda stressed that slum dwellers including illegal squatters will be provided with houses instead of their congested and unhygienic slums in a phase by phase basis.

“It seems the UNP does not want this to happen. They want to keep these low income families in their shanties forever with their brand name of Ethiopia, Bosnia or Tamil Nadu because with that degrading brand name they can be easily sidelined,” Minister De Silva said. (Sandun A. Jayasekera)

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