Cabinet Reallocates 408 Housing Units for Flood Victims & Pipeline Residents 🏠

• Overall Figures: The Cabinet approved the reallocation of 408 unused housing units originally acquired by the Road Development Authority (RDA) for the now-suspended New Kelani Bridge to Athurugiriya elevated expressway project. • Sector & Project Breakdown: • Flood Relief: 336 units at the Sanhinda Sevana complex in Kolonnawa will resettle families in highly vulnerable, repeatedly flood-prone urban zones. • Infrastructure Safety: 72 units at the Helamuthu Sevana complex in Henamulla will relocate non-title occupants living along a high-risk underground petroleum pipeline corridor operated by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). • National Context: The RDA had initially purchased 1,100 units across three complexes from the Urban Development Authority (UDA). Following a Court of Appeal enjoining order that suspended Phase II of the expressway project, the government redirected this idle inventory to address urgent urban resettlement and public safety challenges.