Colombo, Sri Lanka, Aug. 28 -- Ministry of Defence and Urban Development issued the following news release:
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake officially handed over the 'Navodhyagama' Housing Project in Poonagala, Bandarawela, on 28 August 2026, providing permanent homes to 50 families who lost their houses in the landslide that occurred in 2023.
Lieutenant General Nilantha Premaratne RSP USP nps psc, Commander of the Army, attended the ceremony held to mark the handing over of the newly constructed houses to the beneficiary families.
Initiated with the laying of the foundation stone on 15 March 2025, the project was implemented under the initiative of the Ministry of Plantation and Community Infrastructure to resettle families who had ...