More IDPs resettled in Mullaitivu

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More IDPs resettled in Mullaitivu
Mullaitivu district, the theatre of the final battle, is now bustling with life with 36,365 displaced persons already resettled and more families arriving for resettlement every week, Mullaitivu GA Imelda Sugumar told the Sunday Observer. They have been resettled throughout the district, which has been identified as free from landmines, with provision for relief and rehabilitation assistance. Another batch of 1,000 displaced people will arrive this week and the process of resettlement in the district is anticipated to be completed in the next few months, she said.
A Government delegation headed by Economic Development Minister and Senior Advisor to the President Basil Rajapaksa, accompanied by a World Bank delegation visited the resettlement sites in the district on June 2. They inspected the resettlement sites and made an assessement of the ground situation, she said.
The resettling families have been issued dry rations for six months, tin sheets, tarpauline sheets, cement bags, agricultural tools, hygiene kits and Non-Food Relief Items including bed sheets, pillows and utensils. The families are initially paid Rs. 5,000 of the Rs. 25,000 financial assistance provided by the UNHCR. Eight thousand families have already been paid the total amount while the payments in respect of the remaining families will be paid in the near future, the GA said. Assistance has been provided to all war-displaced families that have resettled in their former villages in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, she said.
Of the total 293,000 war-displaced persons who were housed in welfare villages in Menik Farm, Chettikulam, 233,000 have already been resettled in their villages in all the five districts of the Northern Province, sources from the Ministry of Resettlement said. Of them about 27,000 have received 'free movement passes', the sources said.
Courtesy : Sunday Observer