Nearly 1,000 applications received so far
houses will be provided in flats
can build a house on one’s own land
Joint effort by NHDA and SLBFE
The National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) and the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) has launched a joint programme to provide houses for Sri Lankan migrant workers. The houses will be constructed under three categories. Under the first category assistance will be provided to build a house on one’s own land.
Under the second assistance will be provided to migrant workers who do not have a land of their own to build houses in a land outside urban areas of their choice. Under the third category houses will be provided in flats.
The Foreign Employment Bureau will provide financial support for this housing project and the construction work will be carried out by the National Housing Development Authority.
The related Cabinet paper will be jointly submitted by the Urban Development and Housing Minister Prasanna Ranatunge and Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara.
The website of the Foreign Employment Bureau has already conducted a survey on migrant workers who are in need of houses and nearly 1,000 applications have been received.
Apart from that, the National Housing Development Authority says that information about expatriate worker families with housing needs are being collected at the district level as well.
Nirmanee Igalahewage