QThe plantation and human rights minister Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe had revealed the IDP situation at the HR council at Geneva saying there is No single IDP in the country after 26th September 2012. This is very intresting to hear as there are hundreds of thousands of IDPs are still living in tempory shelters or relative's places in many parts of the country.
It is unfortunate the situation of tempory camps of Sampur people .
There are 4 camps with several hundreds people living in following places.
Name of the camp Number of people
Kilivettty 340
Pattithadal 164
Manatchenai 56
Kattaiprichchan 361
On 30th May 2007 GOSL had issued a Gazette notification declaring Sampur High Security Zone with 518 acres. Later the same land mass was declared as Special economic Zone. However, the same area was now declared as Heavy Industrial Zone of Sampur and even no EIA report punlished so far.
In the provincil council debate at the eastern province, when opposition leader of the coimcil raised the plight of Sampur people saying "Hon president had ordered to resettle Sampur people immediately."
However with the surprise the media ammoumced that after attemding swearing in ceremony of Inddian prime minister the same President had ordered to accelerate the building of Sampur coal power plant.
The milliom dollar question is "Whither the Sampur IDP Communities?"
We need an answer for this question.
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