Government to provide ownership of 50,000 flats in Colombo to plantation residents

Colombo, April 21 (Daily Mirror) - The programme of providing free land rights to 2 million is currently underway and steps have been taken to give ownership of 50,000 flats in Colombo to the plantation people.

"We have focused on developing the living conditions of the plantation people and he decision to give land to those people is currently being made.

"We should not be divided politically in this work. If we are divided, we will not see this progress in the country today. We should forget party politics and move forward. Also, we hope to implement some large programmes for the development of this Uva region," President Ranil  Wickremesinghe said.