The Northern Provincial Council indicated that it will adopt the 75 children that lost their parents in the landslide disaster in the Upcountry region last week.
The decision came after the NPC expressed concerns that the orphans would lose their Tamil cultural and linguistic Tamil identity if adopted by the Sri Lankan government, reports Uthayan.
During a NPC meeting convened to address issues regarding the natural disaster, the NPC chief minister CV Wigneswaran also stressed the need to form a plan to meet the long term issues that the Upcountry people will face as a result of the landslide.
Tamil orgs shocked and saddened by Upcountry landslide deaths (01 November 2014)
The decision came after the NPC expressed concerns that the orphans would lose their Tamil cultural and linguistic Tamil identity if adopted by the Sri Lankan government, reports Uthayan.
During a NPC meeting convened to address issues regarding the natural disaster, the NPC chief minister CV Wigneswaran also stressed the need to form a plan to meet the long term issues that the Upcountry people will face as a result of the landslide.
Tamil orgs shocked and saddened by Upcountry landslide deaths (01 November 2014)