The Hon. Chandana Thennakoon
Chandana Thennakoon highlighted that a local institute with significant land, buildings, staff, IT facilities, and residential and lecture capacity is being used only minimally for irrigation-related programmes. He asked whether additional technical or higher-education programmes could be introduced, or whether the facility could be converted into another educational institution to better serve regional education needs and improve resource use.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Deputy Minister, as the area MP I know extensive resources exist: about 16 acres of land, 36 buildings, 31 staff for maintenance, a substantial IT unit, and halls capable of large residential and lecture capacities; yet only a day or two per month are used for irrigation-related programmes. Our region faces many challenges in higher/technical education. Beyond the listed courses, can other programmes be started to develop children’s technical and higher-education capacities, or can this be transformed into another educational institute to maximize efficiency?
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 19 May 2026 ·No. 23608 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Chandana Thennakoon. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 19 May 2026. No. 23608. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/29179