Justice Minister Milinda Moragoda has assured the TNA parliamentarians who visited the IDP camps that a list of Tamil youth from the North under detention or in remand, would be made available soon through the Vavuniya District Secretary.
The members of the TNA delegation, who went to the Wanni on Monday, met Senior Presidential Adviser Basil Rajapaksa and Mr. Moragoda on Tuesday.
Jaffna district parliamentarian N. Sri Kantha said the delegation also highlighted some of the issues -- such as the shortage of milk powder for infants and the shortage of vegetables - faced by displaced people. Mr. Sri Kantha said they had also discussed the issue of some persons being arrested without a valid reason.
Mr. Rajapaksa told the TNA members the government would give each resettled family Rs.450 a day for the first 50 days in addition to the Rs.25, 000 given to each family at the time of resettlement.
The seven-member TNA delegation comprised N. Sri Kantha, Vino Noharathalingam, Sivanathan Kishor, Selvam Adaikkalanathan, R.M. Imam, T. Ariyanethra and Thomas William Thangathurai.
Party leader R. Sampanthan and General Secretary Mavai Senathirajah were unable to join the delegation on its visit.
This was the first time a TNA delegation visited the welfare camps that were set up in May after the war ended.
The party had repeatedly requested the government both in parliament and outside to permit the TNA to visit the welfare camps. The TNA made a similar request when it met President Mahinda Rajapaksa two months ago. |
