The Hon. Eranga Gunasekara
Eranga Gunasekara said the National Youth Services Council had been misused for political patronage and that alleged irregularities would be systematically investigated with legal action pursued through the relevant legal mechanisms. He stated that institutions under the National Youth Services Council and National Youth Corps had sometimes been established on political rather than needs-based grounds, and said the Government would review and reorganize them to better serve youth across the country.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Member, we know the National Youth Services Council had become dowry for the daughters and sons of leaders of our country. Now our responsibility is to investigate all such matters systematically and intervene appropriately. We are taking legal steps, with interventions through the Legal Committee.
¶ 02 Regarding your other question: we know there are a large number of institutions across Sri Lanka under the National Youth Services Council and the National Youth Corps. Some have been established not based on proper needs assessments but on political grounds looking at villages of political leaders; some districts represented by certain Presidents were prioritized for development. We will change that approach, review these institutions, manage them to maximize utility for the country’s youth, and make them truly institutions for our youth.
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Cite as: The Hon. Eranga Gunasekara. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 12 September 2025. No. 1758618446023035. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/3215