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The following are some of the proposals put forward by the governments of Srilanka under the leadership of both UNP and SLFP governments since independence of Ceylon in 1948. Today there is a government in power with necessary power to make the changes in the constitution based on those proposals. If both party leaders have a will,faith,and courage it is not difficult to convince the people of this Nation. 1957 Banda -Chelva Pact (1957) & Dudley-Chelva Pact (1965) Key Statements: • the language of administration of the Northern and eastern Provinces be Tamil, and that any necessary provision be made for the non-Tamil speaking minorities in the Northern and eastern Provinces. • The Northern Province is to form a regional area whilst the Eastern Province is to be divided into two or more regional areas. Provision is to be made in the Bill to enable two or more regions to amalgamate even beyond provincial limit; • Provision is to be made for the direct election of regional councilors. • Parliament is to delegate powers and to specify them in the Act. • It was agreed that regional councils should have powers over specified subjects including agriculture, cooperatives, lands and land developments, colonization, education, health, industries, fisheries, housing, social services, electricity, water schemes and roads. • It was agreed that in the matter of colonization schemes the powers of the regional councils shall include the power to select allotters to whom land within their area of authority shall be alienated and also power to select personnel to be employed for work on such schemes. • The regional councils shall have powers of taxation and borrowing. Indo_Lanka accord (1987) • recognizing that each ethnic group has a distinct cultural and linguistic identity, which has to be carefully nurtured, • Also recognizing that the northern and the eastern provinces have been areas of historical habitation of Sri Lankan Tamil speaking peoples, who have at all times hitherto lived together in this territory with other ethnic groups. Proposal From the Peace support group (1995) • promoting a vision of the Union of Ceylon where all communities can live in safety and security and their human dignity is valued and equality of treatment is an accepted norm of public life; • The Union will have a nonfederal structure, consisting of two States, each being internally autonomous and committed to the furtherance and maintenance of the principles and values declared in the Preamble, including in particular the protection of the fundamental human rights declared in the Constitution and the maintenance of democratic principles. • This framework document provides the basis for a new constitution for the Union of Ceylon, which shall consist of two internally autonomous States — one for the primarily Tamil area and the other for the area which is mainly Sinhalese. This reflects the fact there have been identifiable homelands (historical and existing) on the island for the Tamils (in the North and East provinces) and the Sinhalese (in the rest of the provinces) for over two millennia. Relations between the States will be governed in accordance with generally applicable principles of international law and justice. • Subject to these principles, the internal autonomy of each State will extend to the adoption by each State of its own internal constitution (e.g. size and structure of the legislature, frequency of elections). Peace Talk SriLanka _LTTE (Oslo communique) § “agree on exploring a solution on the principle of internal self determination in areas of historical habitation of the Tamil peoples based on a federal structure within a united #Srilanka” (Oslo communique, Dec 2002) 2009 President Rajapakse Proposal Ø The President said the basis of his devolution plan would be the “13th amendment plus 1″ – meaning implementation of the existing constitutional provisions for provincial councils, but adding an upper house to Parliament, modeled on the U.S. Senate.”