The Hon. Nishantha Perera
Hon. Nishantha Perera asked what action the Ministry is taking regarding properties, including commercially valuable lands in the Galle District, that were taken from private owners around the 1980s but were not legally vested in the Government or local authorities. He stated that some such properties are now being regularized by third parties linked to past political influence and questioned what will happen to assets on which public funds have been spent without a proper legal basis.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, this is my first supplementary question. Hon. Minister, some properties that were historically taken from private owners are now being lost to local authorities. I would like to know what measures the Ministry is currently taking regarding this. In the Galle District, there are many large properties we know privately that are being lost.
¶ 02 These were taken over around the 1980s. However, they were not regularized by properly vesting them, Hon. Speaker. In areas with commercial value, steps are being taken by third parties of those who used political power to take properties without legal process to now regularize them. Enormous public wealth has been spent on them. Now they are going astray because the legal background necessary to vest them in the Government has not been prepared. My first supplementary question to the Hon. Minister is: what will happen to those?
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