2,000 houses for poor under Chinese aid program

The Cabinet yesterday gave approval for three acres of land to be acquired by the Urban Development Authority (UDA) to build houses for low income people in Moratuwa and Dematagoda. 

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka to assign Government-owned land called ‘Elumaduwatta’ in Dematagoda to the UDA as a free grant and to acquire three-acre 8.84 perch