The Hon. Ravindra Bandara
Ravindra Bandara highlighted prolonged displacement in landslide-prone areas of Haputale, including families from Kabaragala and Kalifana living in temporary accommodation for one to two years. He asked the Deputy Minister to address delays caused by NBRO clearance requirements and proposed pre-identifying suitable state or LRC lands in advance, with prior technical assessments, to expedite resettlement after future disasters.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Minister, thank you for the clear explanation. In my Badulla District, Haputale is heavily landslide-prone. I appreciate your preventive interventions, such as removing a large boulder on a roadway recently.
¶ 02 My first supplementary: In Kabaragala, a landslide occurred, and those affected have been housed for nearly two years in a tea factory. Similarly, people in Kalifana have been in temporary places for about a year. Many are agricultural or estate workers. When allocating new lands/houses, NBRO reports are needed, causing delays. Please address these bottlenecks. If we can pre-identify suitable state lands (e.g., LRC lands) and plan in advance, we could expedite resettlement, including obtaining NBRO clearances for areas earmarked for potential disasters. Would you consider such forward planning to shorten timelines?
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravindra Bandara. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 7 January 2025. No. 1736487038022510. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/15923