The foundation stone was laid for the construction of 250 new houses under the Indian Housing Project at a special ceremony held yesterday (04), at the Madakumbura Estate in Punduloya, Nuwara Eliya, the Indian High Commission said today.
Minister for Hill Country, New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development, Palani Digambaram, State Minister for Education V.S. Radhakrishnan and Acting High Commissioner of India Arindam Bagchi jointly laid the foundation stones.
In a similar ceremony held at Vellaioya Estate in Hatton the same day, the foundation stone for the construction of 50 new houses was laid with the participation of the Assistant High Commissioner of India in Kandy Dhirendra Singh.
India has committed a total of 14,000 houses in the Plantation areas including the 10,000 houses announced by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Around 1000 houses out of these are nearly complete. The foundation stones laid at Madakumbura and Vellaioya estates marks the start of another 3000 houses in phases in as many as 40 estates and around 70 locations/divisions.
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