After expropriation comes urban planning, warns Daya Gamage
(Srilankamirror) - The government’s urban planning proposals will have serious repercussions to the country, similar to the ones being experienced as a result of the expropriation act hurriedly made into law recently, chairman of Daya Group of Companies Daya Gamage has warned.
While speaking at the dealer convention 2012 of Daya Trading Company (Pvt.) Ltd. at Hotel Hilton in Colombo yesterday (Feb. 11), he said the urban planning proposals would empower the government to categorize and take over any land, purportedly for development purposes, without the rightful owners having no recourse for redress.
The land thus acquired will then be given to cronies of the government, who will earn millions for themselves but nothing for the country, said Mr. Gamage, who is also the national organizer of the UNP and the Eastern Provincial Council opposition leader.