The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna
Hon. Rohini Kumari Wijerathna welcomed the inclusion of her Private Member’s Proposal to introduce a contributory pension for overseas migrant workers, noting their contribution to foreign remittances. She raised concerns about human-elephant conflict in the Matale/Rattota area, citing a recent elephant death and the prolonged presence of wild elephants without an effective relocation mechanism. She requested vehicles, offices, housing and facilities for wildlife and electric-fence officers, and criticized unspent allocations and inadequate support for wildlife management.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 I will conclude.
¶ 02 Finally, I thank you for including my Private Member’s Proposal No. 43 from the Policy Book—granting a contributory pension to overseas migrant workers. Much of our foreign remittances come from them; I appreciate this inclusion.
¶ 03 On human-elephant conflict: yesterday, about three and a half kilometres from Matale town, at Rattota in Dunukeppitiya, a wild elephant died. Four wild elephants have roamed that area for about a month; there is no system to relocate them. Previously, some Matale PS Members borrowed the Rajjammana Elephant Unit vehicle to capture an elephant; it met with an accident near Kakirawa and those Members were hospitalized. Officers lack vehicles to drive elephants away. Please focus on such areas; provide proper offices and facilities, even housing, for electric-fence guards. No government has left wildlife officers so helpless. This government has presented words only. Unspent past allocations remain, hence the claim that the Treasury is now “full.”
¶ 04 Thank you.
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Cite as: The Hon. (Mrs.) Rohini Kumari Wijerathna. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 10 November 2025. No. 22753. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/20569