300 families in Bamba flats to be relocated in 60 storey building The National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) would relocate the three hundred families living in the Bambalapitiya flats in a sixty storey building, after the flats were demolished for the proposed mixed development project, NHDA Deputy General Manager Sarath Kumara said. Mr. Kumara said the Bambalapitiya flats would be demolished in order to claim the 10.16-acre land for another housing and semi-commercial project by a Singapore-based Indian company. However, discussions were still ongoing with the people in the flats, and a date to knock down the building was yet to be decided, he said. Mr. Kumara pointed out that each family would receive Rs.50, 000 – Rs. 80,000 as rental for temporary places until the construction of the new sixty storey building was completed. He said an acre from the entire land, valued at Rs.11.3 billion, would be reserved ...