Key pillars of this strategy includes ending the colonial era ‘line-room’ culture which has bounded estate workers to the estates and a potential revenue sharing model between managing company and workers.

In order to ensure this shift, Wickremesinghe shared plans to setup villages by breaking estates from living areas of plantation communities.

“All the line rooms and surrounding areaswill be , taken back by the government and re-gazette them as villages. So that the line room concept will disappear as people start building up he said.