The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE), chaired by Prof. Charitha Herath, unanimously agreed to request Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana to hold a two-day debate on two COPE reports tabled in the Ninth Parliament. The second COPE report tabled in Parliament on April 06, 2021 is a special report on the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) Invested and Established by the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund. It was also recommended that SLIIT be taken over by a Ministry after considering the contents of other Cabinet Memoranda pertaining to the institution. The COPE recommended that action be taken under the Public Property Act against all parties involved in the action taken to deprive the government of its ownership of SLIIT and its control by an agreement signed on 12.05.2015 without any formal authority. State Minister Dr. Nalaka Godahewa, State Minister Sarath Weerasekara, Members of Parliament Jagath Pushpakumara, Eran Wickramaratne, Harsha de Silva, Nalin Bandara, Shanakiyan Rajamanickam and W.P.C.

Source: The Nation August 07, 2021 04:41 UTC