President Mahinda Rajapaksa presented deeds to 5,000 persons who did not own any land, at a ceremony at Temple Trees yesterday, under the Ranbima deeds distribution programme.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa presenting a land deed to one of the 5,000 recipients of land under the Ranbima deeds distribution programme at Temple Trees yesterday. Picture by Sudath Silva
Over 5,000 persons who had been selected countrywide became land owners yesterday. The event was jointly organized by the Land Reclamation Board and the Presidential Secretariat. These new land owners had been living for a long time on government owned lands without having land ownership or having a proper deed. The President wished every success to the new land owners.
Addressing the gathering, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Maithripala Sirisena recalled the occasion when President Mahinda Rajapaksa delivered his inaugural speech in 1971 proposing to grant ownership to those who did not possess any land.
As a result of his suggestion Parliament took steps to distribute government and private owned land under land reclamation. Thousands of people were benefited while a few lost their excess land as a limitation on private land ownerhsip was imposed.
The minister said that the people could become land owners since the government under President Rajapaksa wiped out terrorism from Sri Lankan soil.
"During the LTTE terror period, no one could be assured of their lives let alone land ownership," he said.
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