The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake asked the Minister of Transport, Highways and Urban Development to provide detailed data on the Road Development Authority’s staffing, national road lengths under central and provincial administration, maintenance expenditure over the past five years, and per-kilometre costs for road construction, including privately tendered work. He also sought information on operational expressways, their lengths, maintenance costs, government revenue, returns on investment, and the expressways currently under construction or planned.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 asked the Minister of Transport, Highways and Urban Development:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House the - (i) number of staff members currently employed at the Road Development Authority (RDA); (ii) total distance of roads in the country, under the Central Government and the Provincial Councils, separately in kilometres; (iii) annual cost incurred for the maintenance of those roads during the last five years, separately; (iv) cost per kilometre in constructing new roads; and (v) cost per kilometre, when such construction work is tendered out to private companies?
¶ 03 (b) Will he also inform this House the - (i) number and names of the expressways currently in operation; (ii) distance and annual maintenance cost of the expressways referred to in (i) above; (iii) total revenue for the Government from these expressways; (iv) return on investment for each of these expressways; and (v) names of the new expressways currently under construction and those planned for construction in future, separately?
¶ 04 (c) If not, why?
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 ·No. 23618 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 20 May 2026. No. 23618. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19159