The Hon. Ajantha Gammeddage
Hon. Ajantha Gammeddage asked the Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure to provide details of State-owned lands in the Matara District granted to private plantation companies, including the companies involved, land extents, crops cultivated, and the extent actually cultivated. He further asked which companies had not cultivated allocated lands, whether the Government planned to reclaim such lands, and whether revenues due to the Government had been properly recovered.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House - (i) the extent of land granted to private plantation companies, out of the State-owned lands in the Matara District; (ii) the name of each of the companies to which such lands were made available, the extent of lands given to each such company and the crops grown on each of the lands, separately; (iii) the extent of land in which cultivation has been carried out, out of the lands given to the plantation companies referred to above; (iv) the names of the plantation companies which have not carried out cultivation activities on the lands given to them, out of the plantation companies referred to above; (v) whether plans have been made to take those lands back to the Government; and (vi) whether revenues accruable to the Government have been recovered properly from the plantation companies concerned?
¶ 03 (b) If not, why?
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Cite as: The Hon. Ajantha Gammeddage. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 7 August 2025. No. 1755509552009433. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/24247