NewsDeputy Speaker Thilanga Sumathipala will head the Select Committee of Parliament to look into and to make recommendations in order to ensure that Sri Lanka achieves the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Speaker Karu Jayasuriy announced today. The other members of the committee are MPs Gamini Jayawickrama Perera, VS Radhakrishnan, Niroshan Perera, Ruwan Wijewardene, Sumedha G Jayasena, Anuradha Jayaratne, Bimal Ratnayake, Abdullah Mahroof, Buddhika Pathirana, Dr Ramesh Pathirana, E Saravanapavan, Dr Nalinda Jayatissa, Rohini Kumari Wijeratne and S Viyalenthiran. Sri Lanka has endorsed UN Sustainable Development Goals which constitutes an interlinked framework fusing together economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development and as Parliament is at the forefront in realizing these goals through their lawmaking, budgeting and oversight functions, the Select Committee of Parliament are appointed for this purpose. The Committee, is tasked with formulating National Policies and legislating laws in consultation with relevant line Ministries; allocation of adequate domestic resources and finding international funding resources; coordinating among Government implementing Agencies and networking measures at National, Provincial and Local levels.

Source: Sunday Times November 17, 2016 10:54 UTC