The Hon. Gnanamuththu Srineshan
Hon. Gnanamuththu Srineshan urged authorities to ensure that Aptitude Tests are designed in a way that does not disadvantage visually impaired candidates, particularly by avoiding reliance on images and maps. He also raised concern over an incident in Sittandy where two children were critically injured by a temple elephant, calling for appropriate action and caution against treating such elephants as harmless pets.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Please give me one more minute, Hon. Deputy Chairperson of Committees.
¶ 02 Please show empathy on this matter and design the Aptitude Test in a manner that visually impaired candidates can also sit and answer without being disadvantaged by images and maps included in the paper.
¶ 03 Next, due to rampaging “temple elephants,” two children, Mithushan and Mithusalini, were attacked by an elephant and are now in the Accident Ward in a critical condition in Sittandy. Appropriate action must be taken. We should not declare temple elephants as pets or tolerate them as animals that can kill people. With that, I conclude. Thank you.
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Cite as: The Hon. Gnanamuththu Srineshan. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 January 2025. No. 1737023464031571. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/27686