sri lanka's commissions of inquiry - Law & Society Trust
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A swift remedy for the homelessness by settling such families on<br />
state-owned land, preferably in the area <strong>of</strong> their residence prior<br />
to the displacement, and the provision <strong>of</strong> financial assistance in<br />
the construction <strong>of</strong> a house. 195 I.2(i)<br />
The allocation <strong>of</strong> state land for cultivation – the permit to the land<br />
and house to be in the name <strong>of</strong> the female head <strong>of</strong> household.<br />
I.2(ii)<br />
A state-lands alienation scheme to regularize the unauthorized<br />
occupation <strong>of</strong> state lands by members <strong>of</strong> families <strong>of</strong> disappeared<br />
persons. Those who have been dispossessed be restored to<br />
possession <strong>of</strong> the lands in question or be given alternate lands<br />
after due <strong>inquiry</strong>. 196 I.3(i)<br />
A forum be created to receive complaints <strong>of</strong> successors <strong>of</strong><br />
disappeared “Ande” 197 cultivators with a view to restoring to<br />
them their rights and a scheme to re-locate affected families <strong>of</strong><br />
disappeared “Ande” cultivators who have been “constructively<br />
dispossessed” in consequence <strong>of</strong> government projects. 198 I.3(ii)<br />
Southern, Final<br />
(169)<br />
Southern, Final<br />
(169)<br />
Southern, Final<br />
(169)<br />
Southern, Final<br />
(169)<br />
1997<br />
1997<br />
1997<br />
1997<br />
195.<br />
Families <strong>of</strong> the disappeared have not been put down as a special category in housing aid schemes implemented by the National Housing<br />
Development Authority (NHDA).<br />
196.<br />
Families <strong>of</strong> disappeared persons do not constitute a special category in land alienation schemes.<br />
197.<br />
The Ande system dates back to the times <strong>of</strong> ancient kingdoms <strong>of</strong> Sri Lanka, where a tenant cultivated the land which was held or owned by<br />
another, and where the tenant paid a part <strong>of</strong> the proceeds <strong>of</strong> the crop to the owner. See Pieris, Kamalika, Lands in Medieval Sri Lanka, The<br />
Island, available at http://www.island.lk/2008/12/13/satmag3.html, accessed on 14/9/2009.<br />
198. Not implemented.<br />
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