Homes for 25 IDP families from Tokyo Cement
View(s):Tokyo Cement Group recently set up a housing scheme for 25 internally displaced families from the Trincomalee district on the company’s own land at Adampodai, Nilaveli.
This, it said in a media release, is the initial phase of a much larger project to uplift the lives of Internally Displaced people in Trincomalee.
The new housing scheme
While the foundation for the project was laid on May 5, 2017, in commemoration of late A.Y.S. Gnanam, Founder Chairman of Tokyo Cement Group, the scheme was opened in March 2018 by R. Sampanthan MP, Leader of the Opposition in Parliament in the presence of Mr. N.A.A. Pushpakumara, Government Agent and District Secretary of Trincomalee, Dr. Harsha Cabral P.C., Tokyo Cement Chairman and Christopher Fernando, Executive Director of Tokyo Cement among others.
Mr. Sampanthan, who handed over keys to part of the 25 families, reminisced how he requested the late Mr. Gnanam to provide job opportunities to people from the area on the day former President J.R. Jayewardene laid the foundation for the Tokyo Cement Factory in 1984, and thanked the company for unreservedly fulfilling that request.
Each house costing around Rs. 2.3 million is built on a 10-perch plot of land and the scheme has all basic amenities along with paved roadways, a community centre and a children’s park.