Will not allow room for corruption, fraud or irregularities in development process – President
President Maithripala Sirisena says the assistance of the international community has been received for the development process of Sri Lanka as a result of the ensured political stability in the country, and emphasized that he will not allow any room to occur corruption, fraud or irregularities within the development process.
The President made these remarks participating in programmes held in the Badulla district, yesterday (27).
President Sirisena further said that although the former Government allowed these mistakes to continue, without punishing the wrongdoers, today, the government is taking steps to impose stringent actions against fraud, corruption and irregularity without any political differences.
Even though political rivals level various allegations and criticisms against the government using the ensured democracy and freedom in the country, the President said however it would be impossible for anybody to reverse the development programmes that are being implemented in the country with the support of all friendly countries in the world.
President Maithripala Sirisena vested the Badulla, Hali Ela, and Ella integrated water supply project with the public, yesterday (27). The water supply project will provide safe drinking water for 110,000 people in 42 Grama Niladhari Divisions in the above three Divisional Secretariat Divisions round the clock.
The project includes a new dam, new and upgraded water treatment plants, storage tanks, pumping stations, and transmission and distribution pipelines.
The cost of the project is Rs 11,800 million. The Governments of Sri Lanka and the USA funded the project.
The President after unveiling the plaque of the water project made an inspection tour of the project.
President Maithripala Sirisena also declared open a car park constructed by the Uva Provincial Council at a cost of 95 million rupees fulfilling a need of a well planned car park for the city of Badulla.
The car park can accommodate up to 200 vehicles at a time.
Furthermore, 320 public service appointments, including Development Officer, Agricultural Assistant, Revenue Inspector, Agricultural Instructor and Tamil medium teaching instructors, were presented and the President symbolically presented few letters of appointments.
Thereafter, the President made an inspection tour of the City of Badulla and opened the new traffic light system.
Ministers and MPs, including Ministers Rauff Hakeem, Harin Fernando, State Ministers Lakshman Seneviratne, Dilan Perera,Deputy Minister Sumedha G. Jayasena, Governor of Uva Province M. P. Jayasinghe, Chief Minister Chamara Sampath Dasanayake participated on this occasion.
(President’s Media)
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President Maithripala Sirisena from January 8, 2015 has lead Sri Lanka to a new chapter in its history with the two major parties working together in a National Government mainly to bring about dialogue and reconciliation among the different communities in Sri Lanka. The other major goal, in the plan, outlined in Vision 2025, is sustainable economic development that will be eco-friendly and all inclusive with the aim of building a just, peaceful and an all inclusive society.
For these and other values or virtues—including the President’s skill for peaceful conflict resolution by accommodation on the middle path, the Oslo Peace Research Institute has shortlisted President Sirisena for the Noble Peace Prize, 2017.
No other Sri Lankan has been shortlisted for the world’s most prestigious peace prize and it is a great honour to the country.
what have you done about the past including yours under the rajapaksas and often you claimed inside information that would try the R clan leading to a conviction under the existing law.
Why are you pandering now with your cabinate to set up presidential commissions to exonerate ravi karunanayake and his acolyte mahendran and his lying crooked son in law.
why dont yoy try alloysius for smuggling potable alchol and sold under Mendis label
why dont you have sumathipala for bribery.
almost two years gone and you have done nothing about it
why have you demanded the UN to come up with a solution for the Mynmar Rhongiyas and demand the UN to get the Mynmar government to take back these refugees like what they did for the SL refugees going to australia.
Sirisena dont bend backwards to accomoadte the your mission in New York has no idea accomodate the UNHRC
your mission in New York is nor your consular officers are clueles as to what is going on in Sri Lanka in this connection. the officials there are preoccupied entertaining visiting party members unofficially
so much for all talk sirisena
WB calls for increased investment to sustain growth from the Island newspaper dated July 29th 2011. Also a article from the Sunday observer of 13th August 2017 with the Caption “ Thermal power generation : Cost to Country enormous . IMF.
Our President should read these articles carefully and then will realize that investors are not coming to our country as we have no coal fueled BOT projects as base load and economical Hydro as peaking power.
I wish to state that Present President Maitripala Sirisena misled by environmentalists surrounding him in the guise of the oil lobby almost ban BOT coal fuel electricity in Sampoor where a EIA was given for coal fueled electricity thus Our President contravening The electricity Act No 20 of 2009 and contravening articles 27,3,4,and 12 of our constitution but our constitution is above all laws. We the people have a President who is not concern about we the people and is willing to cnotravene the laws on least cost electricity and also our constitution for no reason
I wish to state in respect of carbon emissions that we have one of the lowest carbon emission in the world, down loaded from the internet which confirms this which gives the carbon emission per person per country which indicates the carbon emissions for Sri Lanka is very small 0.61 metric tons per capita per year which includes the total carbon emissions including transport which is more than twice that of electricity generation while Singapore is 141.1 metric tones, USA 5902.75, Japan 1246..75. as such why is our President not concern regarding we the people
Since a total of 65 Mw of roof top solar power as been connected to the grid it could be established that the solar power has destabilized our country’s economy as such it is urgently required to test a roof top Solar Panel in the manner stated below
I wish to state that the best way of checking the effectiveness of the solar panels in Sri Lankan Conditions is to take a solar panel from the stores and fix it on a roof top and directly connect it to a load of the rating of the solar panel through a domestic meter of rating 30 amps and daily take readings for 3 days at the same time this should be supervised by, The Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka, The Institution of Engineering and Technology Sri Lanka Branch, CEB Engineers, Sustainable Energy Authority PUCSL and Parliamentarians and within 6 hours we will be able to state that solar panels are a massive fraud this is essential to establish that there is a colossal fraud
There are thousands of thousands coal Power stations in the world I am asking from the President in which country was the EIA (environmental impact Assessment) refused stating it is not satisfactory I wish to ask in which country in the world was the EIRR (economic internal rate of return) for a coal power station estimated to be below 10 % The answer is there are none as such this indicates that coal fueled BOT projects are the only salvation for countries like Sri Lanka which our President is willing to ignore and as such establishes that he has no regards for we the people
I wish to state the thermal electricity generated using very expensive oil or LNG is the only reason for the very high cost of electricity to our country instead of very low cost from coal, as such the cost of electricity to our country without subsidies is very much more than the high average price we pay, this has resulted in the CEB being unable to act in accordance, to their statutory duties and also to their mission statement find annexed the said mission statement can be downloaded from the internet and is the only reason the CEB is debt ridden, do the President agree that using expensive oil or LNG is the only reason our price of electricity is very high although the price of oil in the world market is very low this is not available to the CEB or to the independent electricity generators till such time as coal fueled BOT projects which can come up in 3 years time from the time land is made available for the coal fueled BOT projects does our President agree to give duty free furnace oil to CEB and to independent Power Producers.
I wish to state that the comparative cost per kWh of electricity in the US from difference fuels which comparison will be the same for our country which can be downloaded from the internet from which it can be seen the cost from natural gas which is LNG, or oil is two and a half time as much as from , coal or Nuclear $ 0.4, Hydro 0.03 $ Natural Gas $ 0.1, Petroleum $ 0.1 other renewable over $0.15 the accurate comparison for our country should be given by the CEB engineers and the PUCSL as it is their duty to do so. Will our President who should act on behalf of we the people who are supreme take note of the above comparisons