The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe
Wasantha Samarasinghe stated that the People’s Bank authorization connected to co-operative pawning licences had lapsed on 07.06.2024, and that three rounds of discussions had been held with the bank to restore it. He said the Government was also taking steps to protect the co-operative sector from asset misappropriation while restoring the facility.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, the original Question was about restoring the co-operative pawning licence. On that, as I said, People’s Bank’s authorization lapsed on 07.06.2024. We have already held three rounds of discussions with People’s Bank and are proceeding to restore it. In parallel, we are freeing the co-operative sector from those who plundered its assets. We will restore this facility as well.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 ·No. 23706 ·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/2780
Cite as: The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 June 2026. No. 23706. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/2780