10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

The Hon. (Dr.) Elayathamby Srinath

Illankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi· Batticaloa· 8 January 2025 ·Debate: Debate: Orders and Regulations (continued)

AgricultureCorruption & Governance ReformEnvironment
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Hon. (Dr.) Elayathamby Srinath raised concerns about a proposed prawn farm in the Vakarai Divisional Secretariat Division, noting that it had been discussed at the District Coordinating Committee, with a feasibility study completed and thousands of acres allocated. He requested a re-study that considers the interests of local communities and asked for the involvement of the Minister of Environment in addressing the issue.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Sir, give me one more minute, please.

¶ 02 Another issue: establishing a prawn farm in the Vakarai Divisional Secretariat Division. This was discussed at the DCC. A feasibility study was done and thousands of acres allocated, but I request a re-study, considering local communities. I also request the Hon. Minister of Environment to be involved. Thank you; please consider these important Batticaloa issues.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Wednesday, 8 January 2025 ·No. 1737023464031571 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
Page · column
not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
Permalink
/lk/speeches/27634

Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Elayathamby Srinath. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 January 2025. No. 1737023464031571. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/27634