Varani families demand payment of resettlement allowance
[TamilNet, Thursday, 09 December 2004, 16:33 GMT]
Resettled families in Varani village in Thenmaradchchi division Thursday
held a sit-in protest preventing employees of Jaffna district
secretariat entering the building bringing the civil administration to a halt till noon, civil sources said. The protesters
demanded immediate payment of resettlement allowance of Rs 25,000 as
promised by the Sri Lanka Government, civil sources in Jaffna said.
Varani residents withdrew the protest campaign
after the Additional Government Agent
Mr.S.Sivasamy assured them that they will receive the allowance before December 18th,
civil sources said. The Sri Lanka government has been paying resettlement allowance to all resettled
families at the rate of Rs: 25,000 per family. Several families have been
paid this allowance in other parts of the Jaffna district, except about
three hundred resettled families in Varani area.
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