Regardless of the fact that the council seriously ailing from severe dearth of proper lands even to construct a vehicle park Galle Municipal Council is selling valuable lands in the town and Galle Fort at low – priced rates to the public sector through sneaky transactions, Southern Provincial Councilor (JVP) Nalin Hewage charged.
He made the above allegations at Galle District Co-ordinating Committee meeting held at the Galle District Secretariat. Southern Province chief minister Shan Wijayalal De Silva and Galle district parliamentarian Wijepala Hettiarachchi co-presided.
Hewage made the above allegation at the discussion held over the incident of exhumation of several ancient graves on a site which has been recommended to be sold to the private sector.
Galle Municipal Council and its incumbent councillors are provisional custodians of the lands in the municipality. Having been elected to power for five years they lease out council lands to the private sector for thirty years. People do not bring their vehicles to Galle town as there are no places for parking. It is hardly possible to find a piece of land even to construct even a toilet within town limits.The council cannot at least find a suitable land to provide parking to the thousands of people who come to the city daily, he said.
The recent land transactions of Galle Municipal Council were obviously made under sneaky transactions.
The Galle Mayor said that after thirty years, the land and all buildings at Peddler Street in Galle Fort will be owned by the council."We have made the lease agreement with such provisions. All such dealings were carried out after Cabinet approval.
We wanted to make use of a land which had been abandoned for long. As the excavations were carried out some graves were unearthed. However any development on the land will be allowed solely on the approval of the Archaeology Department.
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