By The Pulseline News Desk
India’s grant-funded Model Village Housing Project has reached another milestone with the handover of 24 houses to low-income families in Galle, bringing the total number of completed model villages to 22 across Sri Lanka’s 25 districts.
Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha and Minister of Housing, Construction and Water Supply Dr. H. M. Susil Ranasinghe have jointly inaugurated and handed over the houses at the ‘Didula’ Model Village in the Galle District on Thursday (22).
The project, implemented jointly by the Governments of India and Sri Lanka, aims to provide housing facilities for 600 low-income families, with each of the 25 districts allocated a model village comprising 24 houses.
The initiative is being carried out with grant assistance from the Government of India, under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the two countries in October 2017.
According to the Indian High Commission in Colombo, construction under the project has reached approximately 98.6% completion, with the remaining three model villages expected to be inaugurated and handed over to beneficiaries shortly.
Model villages have already been inaugurated in 21 other districts: Batticaloa, Vavuniya, Jaffna, Kandy, Gampaha, Anuradhapura, Badulla, Matale, Puttalam, Colombo, Trincomalee, Monaragala, Kilinochchi, Mannar, Mullaitivu, Ratnapura, Ampara, Kurunegala, Kegalle, Kalutara and Polonnaruwa.
Beneficiaries are selected by the respective District Housing Committees, according to the project framework.
District parliamentarians, the Chairman and senior officials of the National Housing Development Authority, and officials from the Galle District administration had also attended the handover ceremony.
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