The Hon. Rauff Hakeem, Attorney-at-Law

¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation: (a) Will he inform this House: (i) the extent of the land that has been allocated/acquired to construct the proposed domestic airport in Maberiyatenna in the Medadumbara Divisional Secretary’s Division in Kandy District; (ii) the extent of government plantations and private plantations situated among the lands concerned; (iii) the number of private residences, factories, estate schools and institutions that provide public services in the lands mentioned in (a)(i) above; (iv) the names and addresses of each of those who have been identified as losing their private residences when the lands are acquired for that project, separately; and (v) the policy decisions and the alternative measures that have been taken to resettle the people who lose their houses? (b) If not, why?