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The post of Surveyor General was often combined with that of Civil Engineer and Commissioner of Roads. The department, during the first fifty years, was mainly engaged in the survey of scattered allotments of land for sale to private parties. The first title plan was issued by the new department on 20 August 1800 surveyed by C. Schneider.
Land in Bolivia was unequally distributed – 92% of the cultivable land was held by large estates – until the Bolivian national revolution in 1952. Then, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement government abolished forced peasantry labor and established a program of expropriation and distribution of the rural property of the traditional landlords to the indigenous peasants.
Port City Colombo (Sinhala: කොළඹ වරාය නගරය, romanized: Koḷam̆ba Warāya Nagaraya) is a multi-services special economic zone located in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which is currently under construction on reclaimed land adjacent to the Galle Face Green. The land reclamation work had been
Russia became Sri Lanka’s largest source of tourists after nearby India last year. Nearly 200,000 Russians and 5,000 Ukrainians visited the country of 22 million last year, official Sri Lankan ...
The Sri Lankan Parliament Building is located in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte near Battaramulla. A park called "Diyatha Uyana" is located at Polduwa junction, near the Waters Edge hotel. The park is constructed on marshy land on the banks of the Diyawanna Oya. It sits between the Parliamentary complex and the Diyawanna Oya at the Polduwa junction.
In 1974, the Maduwanwela Walawwa and its estate, the Maduwanwela Nandigama Watte was taken over to the state by the Land Reform Commission and administrated by the Department of Archaeology as a museum. [4] In 2023, the Government of Sri Lanka leased 35 ha (87 acres) of land from the estate to Ceylon Tobacco Company for forest farming. [5]
Sri Lankan state-sponsored colonization schemes is the government program of settling mostly Sinhalese farmers from the densely populated wet zone into the sparsely populated areas of the dry zone. This has taken place since the 1950s near tanks and reservoirs being built in major irrigation and hydro-power programs such as the Mahaweli project .
Founded in 1981, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is the largest Muslim political party in Sri Lanka. [224] President Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the 2015 presidential elections, ending his ten-year presidency. However, his successor as Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirisena, decided not to seek re-election in 2019. [225]