Chilavathurai will be rebuilt; industrial zone in Kondachchi: PM

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the Chilavathurai city will be rebuilt and an industrial zone will be set up in Kondachchi.

“Government will take steps to resettle people chased out of Silavathurai. Silavathurai city will be rebuilt, for which additional land is required. We will hold discussions with the Navy stationed there. 
Minister Rishad Bathiudeen is taking steps to upgrade and develop Silavathurai Hospital and to establish an industrial zone in Kondachchi. We will take steps to promote tourism, upgrade fishing standard and establish a technical college in Mannar,” said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe addressing an election campaign meeting in support of candidates of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress contesting LG bodies.

“People living in these areas should get their native land back. They raised an issue of historical Wilpattu forest reserve being destroyed by these homeless people. 

Rishad strives hard to develop and build Musali area. After you all were evicted by the LTTE, your native place in Musali and Chilavathurai was abandoned and it became a forest. Your fertile farm land became a forest. Land in villages became the property of the forest department. People living in these areas should get their native land back.

Minister Rishad Bathiudeen attempted to find a permanent solution to this problem by filing a case in the court of law. Court will give a verdict. After it, your farm land and other land will be returned to you to carry out your normal farming activities freely and happily,” said Wickremesinghe.