The
cabinet, approved and authorized the Special Ministerial
papers submitted by His Excellency the President, in lieu
of the appointment of a special working committee, related
to the implementation of resettlement, rehabilitation and
rebuilding of the Northern Province, yesterday.
Accordingly, a
special working committee will be appointed to facilitate,
in order to carry out all humanitarian aspects, related to
resettlement, rehabilitation and rebuilding process of act
in the future, with the purpose of providing deliverance
for the people of the North from the clutches of the
Tigers.
This, special
committee would constitute in its August administrative
body, Minister Douglas Devananda as its head, Hon Minister
Rishad Badiutheen M.P and Parliamentarian Basil Rajapaksa
M.P as members of the committee. This administrative body
would undertake a varied range of programs and projects
towards the up-liftment of human and life giving programs
in the Districts of Mannar, Vavuniya, Kuilinochchi,
Mullaitivu and Jaffna in the Northern Province. This would
purpose-build the humanitarian infrastructure upgrade
march of the people’s living conditions, the embodiment of
which are the health services, supply of electricity, an
activated irrigation program, a modernized and
techno-friendly communication network, constructions of
Highways and supply of pure drinking water.
The
special committee would also under take an enhanced
program to provide the infrastructure facilities, to
attain normalcy in the curriculum of education at all
school levels and the provision of vocation related
training that would provide the avenues for the youth of
the North, to accomplish suitable job oriented study
programs. Further the spirit of dedication contained in
His Excellency’s, forethought ideology “Mahinda
Chinthanaya” related to the development of agriculture,
husbandry, fishing industry and its related fields, to be
implemented in these districts, where by “Mahinda
Chinthanaya” becomes a materialistic reality, not only for
the man of the South and the Southerners but also to the
man of the North and all Northerners in general,
fulfilling the thoughts laid down in His Excellency’s wish
and purpose for the Northerner becoming a new life giver
under the able guidance and leadership of Minister Douglas
Devananda.
Further, this
administrative body would undertake the responsibility in
total, to provide the feasible studies based on the ground
reality providing the necessary planning and guidance to
all State Ministries, Departments, Corporations and all
affiliated bodies related to the “Three R” program, to be
undertaken under the direct guidance and administration of
this special committee, in the North, in the future.
This
special committee, would also provide assistance and
guidance to attain a higher degree of perfection, related
to this board room program to be of a highly successful
scheme of work, in its embryo stage conceived by Minister
Douglas Devananda, with the magnanimous support of
Minister Rishad Badiutheen M.P and Mr. Basil Rajapaksa M.P,
the committee which would grow into a fully grown child
from its embryo stage to perfection at the end of the day.
The committee would
mediate and create the necessary coordination among the
administrators, All Party Representatives and their
advisory bodies and organizations and would sit to create
as and when it is deemed to submit plans and project
schemes to the Governor of the North, as and when this
special committee is called upon to do so.