The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake – Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation
Minister Bimal Rathnayake stated that private testing companies had made substantial investments to establish islandwide stations, reducing the need for major government capital expenditure, while acknowledging weaknesses in monitoring. He said that when the current agreement expires at the end of 2026, future concessions could be structured with greater transparency, and noted that the expansion of electric vehicles would proportionately reduce the scope of such testing services.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, testing companies have invested significantly to establish stations islandwide; if the Government had done it, the capital outlay would be large. However, we accept monitoring weaknesses. With the agreement expiring at end-2026, future concessions can be structured with greater transparency. With EV adoption, the scope will reduce proportionally. That is how we are proceeding.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 21 August 2025 ·No. 1757391500023637 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake – Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 August 2025. No. 1757391500023637. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/22587