The Mahatma Gandhi Model Village housing project in Ampara was inaugurated and handed over to the 24 beneficiary families on Wednesday (29).
The housing project was jointly inaugurated by the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha and the Minister of Housing, Construction and Water Supply, Susil Ranasinghe.
The Model Village Housing Project is being implemented in all 25 districts of the island jointly with the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Water Supply of Sri Lanka, with grant support from the Government of India.
A Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of India and the Government of Sri Lanka was signed for the project in October 2017. The project encompasses housing facilities for 600 low-income families of Sri Lanka, with a model village each consisting of 24 houses per district for families selected by the District Housing Committees.
Model villages under the project have earlier been inaugurated and handed over in 16 districts: Batticaloa, Vavuniya, Jaffna, Kandy, Gampaha, Anuradhapura, Badulla, Matale, Puttalam, Colombo, Trincomalee, Monaragala, Kilinochchi, Mannar, Mullaithivu and Rathnapura. The project progress is nearly 98% and the remaining model villages too are expected to be inaugurated and handed over to the beneficiaries soon. (Newswire)