President Ranil Wickremesinghe presided over a ceremony held at the Jaffna District Secretariat on Saturday (11) to award land deeds and financial compensation to 197 families who were displaced in the North.
The lands were freed as part of a program to return the lands used by the security forces during the civil war to the original residents, as per the instructions of the President.
The President was joined by Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda, the President’s Senior Adviser on National Security and Chief of Presidential Staff Sagala Ratnayake, Secretary to the President Saman Ekanayake, President’s Coordinating Secretary to the Northern Province M. Ilangovan, former Parliamentarian Vijayakala Maheswaran, and other dignitaries.