The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Hon. Bimal Rathnayake said the Government values the Opposition Leader’s suggestions and is taking a holistic approach involving the relevant Ministry and other institutions. He stated that immediate railway safety measures would be implemented first, with a review in one or two months to ensure such measures become standard practice before moving to broader reforms.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, before that, please allow me. We value the Opposition Leader’s ideas. Different places and countries need different solutions. Our approach is holistic. So we brought in not only the Ministry, but other institutions. We will first implement the immediate measures. Often, after a sensitive incident, the Railways Department takes steps, but they later stop. Our question is how to make this the new normal. We will review implementation within a month or two and then move towards the broader approach the Opposition Leader mentioned.
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