‘Critics have not built even one village’
Housing, Construction and Cultural Affairs Minister Sajith Premadasa challenged those who make allegations regarding his Uda Gammana programme, to make their criticisms directly to him.
The Minister said the politicians who claim that the houses built under Uda Gammana programme are very small and not sufficient for a family to live in, have not been able to build at least one reawakened village when they were in power.
“Although some groups attempting to sabotage this housing programme say that the Ministry has spent a large amount of money for the name boards of the reawakened villages, none of them have been named after me or my father. They have only been named after historical figures in the country.
The Minister was speaking at the vesting of the 165th Uda Gammanaya with the public recently.
Minipahanagama model village constructed in Nugaleyaya, Sevanagala, in the Monaragala district consists of 28 houses built at a cost of Rs. 24.9 million.
The model village is equipped with access to clean drinking water and electricity and consists of entry roads and a network of internal roads.
(Source: Daily News – By Ishara Mudugamuwa)
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It is pretty easy to build villages and houses with taxpayer funds, my dear Minister.
Just take the money from Treasury and build houses for your potential supporters.
Will this money be ever recovered?
This taxpayer money is spent to increase your voter base.
Hon RP, if you are a sincere Minister, please prepare a Business Case for spending taxpayer funds for building houses and villages showing how this investment will be recovered and also, attache a plan for realisation of benefits for this spend.
Yes Minister,
Anyone can build houses and villagers for their political supporters with money from the Treasury.
That is no big deal.
The Uda Gammana Porgram is not about throwing taxpayer money to build villages.
The Uda Gammana Program should be abouut awakening the lives of the villagers to enable them to build their own houses with their own money and be proud of their own achievements.
But that kind of Program needs intelligent and visionary leadership, which, you have none.
Yes Kota-Katu arranging bank loans and building houses, ask to paint them in Green, charge another 1,000 Rs to hang Sajith’s photo. How much money wasted for PR campaign.