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Go-slow surveyors block resettlement
With tsunami-rebuilding plagued by paralysis and confusion, a go-slow and sick-note campaign by some 700 government surveyors has further affected the resettlement of tsunami-affected families in the South. The islandwide campaign launched by surveyors demanding professional status to their service has now forced the divisional secretaries in Galle and Hambantota to hire private surveyors to demarcate individual boundaries for the houses to be built.

However a Survey Department official said that unless the blocked-out land got the approval of the Survey Department no valid deed could be written.

Surveyor General B.J.P. Mendis said he had requested the Surveyors’ Association to operate an emergency team in the tsunami-affected areas but they had refused to comply.

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