Sri Lanka, Feb. 11 -- Under the Urumaya program, the freehold provision of real estate and farm land rights to two million families can be called the beginning of the modern revolution for farmers and their sons and daughters who did not own even an inch of their own land, said Presidential Economic Advisor Dr. R.H.S. Samaratunga.

Since the days of Sinhalese kings, the king owned all the land, and according to the nature of the duties and caste hierarchy, the king assigned lands to the people through various Sannas.

The British came to the country and took away the people's rights to their land by introducing the Waste Lands Act as a strategy to find the land they and foreign investors needed to build a plantation economy.

Therefore, t...