PARLIAMENT

Hon. Kitnan Selvaraj,—To ask the Minister of Plantation and Community  Infrastructure,— (1)

(a) Will he inform this House —

(i) whether he is aware that the people in the Estates do not get clean drinking water;

(ii) of the number of Drinking Water Projects implemented in the Estates in the Badulla district by the government and the Plantation Human Development Trust after 1992; and

(iii) of the amount of money spent on each such project and their current state, separately?

(b) Will he also inform this House —

(i) whether he is aware that the water project carried out at the new housing scheme at Punagala LLG, Kepkade in the Badulla district has not been completed;

(ii) of the amount of money allocated for that project; and

(iii) whether the said amount has been released in full at present?

(c) If not, why?