The Hon. Rohitha Abeygunawardhana
Rohitha Abeygunawardhana asked the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Lands and Irrigation for details on Sri Lanka’s animal census, including its date, cost, objectives, implementation measures, progress, and separate counts of deer, monkeys, giant squirrels and peacocks. He also requested information on the Grama Niladhari Divisions covered or excluded from the census and the reasons for any exclusions.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question No. 6 — 902/2025.
¶ 02 ANIMAL CENSUS: OBJECTIVES AND COST INCURRED
¶ 03 Asked the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Lands and Irrigation: (a) (i) the date on which the animal census in Sri Lanka was carried out; (ii) the amount of money spent on the census; (iii) the objectives of conducting the animal census; (iv) the measures taken to achieve those objectives; (v) the present progress of the census; and (vi) the numbers of deer, monkeys, giant squirrels and peacocks, separately, according to the census? (b) (i) the number of Grama Niladhari Divisions in which the above census was carried out; (ii) the Grama Niladhari Divisions in which the census was not carried out; and (iii) the reasons for not conducting the census in those Divisions? (c) If not, why?
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- Hansard, Thursday, 25 September 2025 ·No. 1759483897051145 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Rohitha Abeygunawardhana. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 25 September 2025. No. 1759483897051145. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/20065