Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2020-01-08

'Gamata Geyak - Ratata Hetak' - A comfortable house for every family

- It has been proposed to commence the housing programme 'Gamata Geyak - Ratata Hetak' from the beginning of the year 2020 itself, as an expedient sustainable development programme to pave the way to achieve sustainable development goals through making every family of Sri Lanka to live in a comfortable home as enunciated in the policy statement 'A reconstructed Country with a Future'.
This programme is due to be implemented Islandwide effective from January 2020 through community committees consisting of political leadership, public officials, civil security organizations and community at the rural level with the coordination of the political leadership and the public officials at the District and Divisional Secretariat level.
Accordingly, the proposal made by the Prime Minister and Minister of Urban Development, Water Supply and Housing Facilities, to secure the provision required, to construct 14,022 houses, as the initial stage to provide one poor family from every Grama Niladhari Division selected on priority to provide a grant of Rs.600,000/- in installments on the basis of the construction progress of a house constructed anew or for upgrading, was approved by the Cabinet.