Up-country Tamil Plantation Community (Estate sector) FACTS Estate sector workers are predominately Tamil, of Indian origin and Sri Lankan citizens. They have been working in Tea plantations for 150 years now. They are among the most disadvantaged and disempowered groups, with average life expectancy and literacy below the national average, and an infant mortality […]
Up country Tamils
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Urgent steps needed to uplift up-country Tamil community in Sri Lanka
Image: Majority of the up country Tamils are working in Tea plantations. (c).deshapriya. Up-Country People (26) 08. The community, primarily Tamils of an oppressed caste from Southern India brought as indentured labour to work in Sri Lanka’s tea plantations (the Estate sector) by the British, has a long history of pervasive discrimination, exploitation and violence. […]
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Sri Lanka: A Systematic Country Diagnostic – World Bank
The Systematic Country Diagnostic is a comprehensive assessment of constraints and drivers of progress towards the twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity. It is an important input to how the World Bank Group engages with its client countries. Findings: Sri Lanka is in many respects a development success story. Growth has averaged […]
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Mono Ganesan on 650,000 Southern Tamil Grievances and Aspirations
First, we are representing the Tamil people who are residing outside the Northern and Eastern Provinces. The Tamil population in the country as per the 2011 census is 3.2 million. Nearly 50% out of this population, that is about 1.5 million, live outside the Northern and Eastern Provinces, namely the Central, Western, Sabaragamuwa, Uva, North-Western […]
