The Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, Attorney-at-Law
Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara proposed granting stronger powers to Local Authorities to require households to clean and maintain the road frontage near their homes, including issuing notices and fines where necessary. He argued that Pradeshiya Sabhas and related agencies lack manpower to maintain road reserves and suggested new legal provisions to support a national clean-up programme. He also called for improved public toilet maintenance, including within Parliament, citing poor conditions in common facilities as an issue the programme should address first.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Fine.
¶ 02 Give powers to Local Authorities. They can issue a circular requiring every household to clean the section in front of their homes — and fine if not done. Today, Local Authorities have to cut grass on road reserves, but lack manpower. If empowered, they can issue chits to every home to clean and plant. A plantation owner cleans within his 25 acres to walk in the evening — but who cuts the grass along the road? The Pradeshiya Sabha or RDA. I propose new legal provisions — we can start cleaning the country from there. Do this, and within six months we can clean the country — though some creatures may lose their habitats. Start these under the program.
¶ 03 Another is toilet maintenance. First, let’s aim to be clean. Go see the toilets in the lower floor of this Parliament — how smelly they are; are they cleaned? No. The upper floor is cleaned; the common area below is foul. At least those places do not have proper toilet paper. Start the program within Parliament itself.
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 21 January 2025 ·No. 1737707091008005 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara, Attorney-at-Law. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 21 January 2025. No. 1737707091008005. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/27336