The Hon. Anura Karunathilaka - Minister of Urban Development, Construction and Housing
The Minister stated that the 8-unit Cey-Nor housing project at Kaluwankeni-2, Eravur Pattu, begun in 1982, was not implemented on land owned by or vested in the National Housing Development Authority. He explained that the project was carried out by the then Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources with Norwegian Government funds, while NHDA only provided technical advice. Consequently, NHDA has no authority to issue title deeds to the beneficiaries because the houses were built on private land.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, the question concerns an 8-unit housing project started in 1982 at Kaluwankeni-2, Eravur Pattu, Batticaloa.
¶ 02 (a) (i) Yes. (ii) No. (iii) The land on which the Cey-Nor Housing Project was implemented does not belong to the National Housing Development Authority (NHDA), nor is it a land scheduled to be vested in NHDA; therefore, NHDA has no capacity to issue title deeds to beneficiaries. (iv) Not applicable.
¶ 03 The project was implemented by the then Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources with funds from the Government of Norway. NHDA only provided technical advice for house construction. As the scheme was built on private land, NHDA has no ability to issue deeds to beneficiaries, as previously informed by NHDA.
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