The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe - Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development
The Minister clarified that projects funded through Indian assistance, whether grants or loans, are recorded within Sri Lanka’s State finances and implemented through State systems. He stated that it is inaccurate to suggest such projects fall outside the Government’s fiscal framework.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, a brief correction is necessary to a technical point raised earlier. When projects are implemented under Indian assistance—whether grants or loans—those expenditures are ultimately recorded under the State finances and executed through the State system. Therefore, to imply such projects are outside the Government’s fiscal framework is not accurate.
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- Hansard, Saturday, 22 February 2025 ·No. 1741001658041256 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe - Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 22 February 2025. No. 1741001658041256. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/25001