The Hon. Susantha Kumara Nawarathna
The Member raised concerns over alleged irregularities in permitting paddy land filling in Anuradhapura, noting that the matter had been repeatedly discussed at the District Coordinating Committee. He asked whether the existing approval process, involving local and district land use committees, had been stopped, changed, or bypassed through ad hoc interventions, and whether the Ministry had taken action to correct the situation.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Minister, there have been serious issues regarding land filling, especially in Anuradhapura, repeatedly raised at the District Coordinating Committee. My first supplementary: a process had been in place for permitting paddy land filling, but it had been violated through ad hoc interventions, bypassing local and district land use committees. Has that process now been stopped or changed, and has the Ministry intervened to correct it, or are you continuing the same process?
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- Hansard, Thursday, 5 February 2026 ·No. 23269 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Susantha Kumara Nawarathna. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 February 2026. No. 23269. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12931