The Hon. Anura Karunathilaka
Anura Karunathilaka stated that delays in issuing deeds to housing beneficiaries had accumulated over time and that the Government has planned an expedited programme to address them. He said a Habitat Week declared for World Habitat Day will be used to resolve long-pending issues, including a 6 October programme led by the President to issue deeds to 1,000 beneficiaries, with the main ceremony in Colombo. He added that an accelerated plan is in place to issue deeds for other houses and complete a substantial portion of pending vesting and deed issuance before the end of the year.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, as the Hon. Member said, due to various reasons over time, the issuance of deeds to beneficiaries has been delayed. After we assumed office, we planned to implement a special expedited programme for deed issuance. Coinciding with this year’s World Habitat Day, we declared a Habitat Week. Under it, we will resolve a number of long-pending issues of this nature. Further, on 06 October, under the leadership of His Excellency the President, we plan to conduct a programme to issue deeds to 1,000 beneficiaries. The main ceremony will be held in Colombo, but we do not expect all beneficiaries to travel to Colombo. We aim to implement the issuance of 1,000 deeds on that day and have already drawn up an accelerated plan to issue deeds to other houses as well. We hope to address a substantial portion of the projects not yet vested and to issue deeds before the end of this year.
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Cite as: The Hon. Anura Karunathilaka. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 September 2025. No. 1757672711095734. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/9650