Only 32,000 IDPs to be resettled in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Chief Coordinating Officer of the Competent Office for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Vavuniya District said that the total number of IDPs remaining in welfare centers in the North is currently 38,127.



The government has stated that the number of IDP zones have also been reduced with only four such zones remaining in the Menik Farm relief village due to the rapid resettlement programme.

The government is to resettle another 3,000 IDPs in Karanchchi, Kilinochchi by July 26 and three groups are to be resettled on July 18, 22 and 26.

Deputy Resettlement Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan that the government was confident of meeting the August deadline for resettling all IDPs in the country.