Tsunami displaced inconvenienced without postal facilities

Fred Silva Jinasena, Telwatta group correspondent

TELWATTE: The Post-Master General and the Postal Superintendent (Southern) Province, Galle have neglected to arrange postal delivery facilities for Galagodawatta tsunami housing scheme in Ambalangoda division.

Thousands of tsunami displaced families who were living in coastal areas are now living in beneficiary houses since August 2005.

According to those families they are facing inconveniences without postal facilities. As such they are compelled to travel to their former villages to collect letters. When the Daily News inquired about this situation from the sub-post master, Kuleegoda, Ambalangoda, he said that the authorities concerned have not given any instructions to him to deliver letters to Galagodawatta situated about three miles away from Kuleegoda. He further said if permission is granted by the higher authorities for letter deliveries to Galagodawatta tsunami housing scheme it could be arranged.

Thousands of tsunami displaced people have requested a new sub-post office for Galagodawatta to enable them to get postal facilities conveniently.