Officials on Tuesday said Sri Lanka has taken steps to establish housing projects exclusively for expatriate workers.
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said the project was jointly implemented by the Bureau of Foreign Employment and the National Housing Development Authority.
Nanayakkara said these projects will see the construction of urban condominiums and rural single housing units to meet the needs of expatriate workers.
A survey on the housing needs of expatriate workers will start from May 22 onwards to boost remittances by providing incentives to workers, he said.
He said the information was expected to be collected within two weeks and the survey was scheduled to be conducted through the development officers assigned to all the divisional secretariats.
According to the minister, the survey would be conducted by Sri Lankan foreign missions, through the official website of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment.
Migrant workers’ remittances are one of the main sources of foreign revenues for Sri Lanka, with workers remitting over 1.8 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of 2023. (Xinhua/NAN)