One hundred and fifty eight new houses were built at Dunsinane Estate, Nuwara Eliya District, owned and managed by Elpitiya Plantations PLC. Out of 404 housing units which are being constructed under the Indian Government’s large-scale housing project initiated in the country at a cost of Rs. 1.2 million, 158 units were handed over to estate workers by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe recently.
The Indian Government initiated a programme to construct 14,000 housing units to provide decent houses for improving living standards of plantation workers under the ‘Plantation Villages’ concept of the Sri Lankan Government in Central and Uva Provinces.
Initially launched in October 2014, the initiative is the first mega project for constructing housing units at Dunsinane Estate with public amenities such as a Child Development Centre, Community Development Centre and an internal road network for easy access to all housing units.
Coinciding with this event, another mega project to provide safe drinking water and sanitation facilities at cost of Rs. 74 million, funded by the World Bank was opened at Dunsinane Estate.