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Sri Lanka’s housing recovery programme was scheduled to begin in Anuradhapura and Kurunegala on 9 January, with compensation for destroyed homes and construction support for affected families.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake outlined the timetable at a parliamentary finance consultative committee meeting on 7 January. The discussion examined resettlement, crop losses and assistance following Cyclone Ditwah.
Officials were instructed to accelerate agricultural compensation using verified information. The meeting also reviewed lending arrangements for affected small and medium businesses and the need to explain available support through banks.
District Secretaries were asked to report on assistance for unregistered enterprises. The President said reconstruction should improve living conditions, while ministries needed to use development allocations efficiently.
Source: news.lk
