The Hon. E.M. Basnayaka
Hon. E.M. Basnayaka raised a supplementary question on longstanding residents in the Kandy District living on lands owned by bodies such as the Sri Lanka State Plantation Corporation, the Land Reforms Commission, and Mahaweli. He asked what measures the Government has taken to grant land titles or ownership to people who have occupied such lands for decades, including some families for several generations.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, my second supplementary question is this. In our country—as in the whole world—one’s land is very special to every person. Especially in the Kandy District, there are many lands owned by the Sri Lanka State Plantation Corporation, the Land Reforms Commission, and Mahaweli, etc. People have been living on these lands for many years—some for 25 to 30 years, some for about three generations. Yet there is still no process to grant title to these people. My question from our Government is: What measures have been taken so far to grant land ownership to these residents?
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- Hansard, Thursday, 23 October 2025 ·No. 22641 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. E.M. Basnayaka. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 23 October 2025. No. 22641. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/7888