The Hon. (Dr.) Susil Ranasinghe - Minister of Housing, Construction and Water Supply
The Minister provided details on lifts in NHDA housing schemes, stating that most high-rise schemes built before 2012 were five floors or fewer and were not required to have lifts under the regulations at the time. He said lifts have been installed only in Soisapura Phase III and the Marapalla Resettlement Housing Project, with maintenance to be handled by Management Corporations after handover, and confirmed that NHDA does not allocate funds for lift maintenance. He also stated that phased measures have been arranged, while indicating that certain follow-up matters were not applicable.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 (a) (i) Prior to 2012, NHDA constructed 87 high-rise housing schemes in and around Colombo; additionally, 2 in Gampaha, 1 in Jaffna, 3 in Matara, and 4 in Kandy. Most were built between 1980–2010 and are five floors or less. Under regulations then, lifts were not required.
¶ 02 (ii) In 2021, under Soisapura Phase III, two five-storey buildings were fitted with lifts. In the Marapalla Resettlement Housing Project (constructed by the Department of Railways and to be handed over to NHDA in 2025), one lift has been installed.
¶ 03 (iii) NHDA does not allocate funds for lift maintenance in housing schemes.
¶ 04 (iv) For the two schemes with lifts, after handover, maintenance is to be vested in the established Management Corporations. In Marapalla, the Department of Railways installed the lift. In Soisapura Phase III, the contractor was the State Engineering Corporation, which installed the lifts.
¶ 05 (v) No.
¶ 06 (vi) Not applicable.
¶ 07 (vii) Measures have been arranged in stages.
¶ 08 (viii) Yes.
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