The Hon. Ruwan Wijeweera
Hon. Ruwan Wijeweera raised Question 447/2025 to the Minister of Environment, seeking year-by-year data from 2020 to 2024 on the extent of land under the Department of Forest Conservation and the reasons for any changes. He also asked the Minister to state the Department’s primary role and whether its lands may be used for common public purposes, and if not, to explain why.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question 447/2025 to the Minister of Environment:
¶ 02 (a) Will he state— (i) the extent of land which belonged to the Department of Forest Conservation from 2020 to 2024, in hectares, year by year; (ii) the main reasons for changes in that extent; (iii) the primary role of the Department of Forest Conservation; and (iv) whether there are provisions for the lands of that Department to be used for common public purposes?
¶ 03 (b) If not, why?
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Cite as: The Hon. Ruwan Wijeweera. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 24 February 2025. No. 1741236032093385. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/11648