The Hon. M.S. Uthumalebbe
Hon. M.S. Uthumalebbe asked whether the Government would resume and complete the suspended “Urumaya” land title deed programme initiated under former President Ranil Wickremesinghe. He raised concern that landowners who submitted original land documents to Divisional Secretariats are facing difficulty recovering them and asked what action the Ministry will take to address this.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Minister, my first supplementary:
¶ 02 During the tenure of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Government launched the ‘Urumaya’ programme to issue land Title Deeds. Landowners were instructed to hand over all land-related documents to the Divisional Secretariats, and many did so. After the Presidential Election was announced, the programme was suspended. Will the present Government and the Ministry now complete this suspended programme? People who submitted originals are being sent between local Land Offices, the Land Commissioner General’s Department in Colombo, and even the Presidential Secretariat’s Land Division to retrieve their documents. What steps will you take?
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 21 January 2026 ·No. 23242 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. M.S. Uthumalebbe. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 January 2026. No. 23242. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/2055