Environmental organizations, certain politicians preventing permanent solutions to floods

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By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana

Whilst highlighting that the government had come up with permanent solutions to prevent floods, State Minister Pramitha Bandara Tennekoon told Parliament that it has become impossible to implement them because of environmental organizations and certain politicians.

The State Minister came out with this remark in response to requests by both ruling party and opposition MPs for a permanent solution to the floods which hit the South, Kalutara and the Gampaha district.

He also said that 26 persons have died due to the inclement weather conditions while 130,021 persons from 33,422 families have been affected as of today.

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Rip Winkle Tuesday, 04 June 2024 01:02 PM

You and the rest of your ilk are your way out, mate. So save your fairy tales for your grand kids.

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Abd Tuesday, 04 June 2024 01:10 PM

Name, who are the certain politicians, we know well,according to the pandora papers, billions of money appeared there, in the name of Nirupama rajapaksha, is actually ,money borrowed by MR regime to mitigate Nilwala floods, from Chinese banks for higher interests but without spending a cent for the cause whole amount was plundered, says ex president MS, but he, himself took no action, unlike past, people of Matara, silently suffering cruelty of floods without raise their voice,rearly someone speaks on it,

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Tissa Fernando Tuesday, 04 June 2024 06:17 PM

Mainly JVP , SJB will be against any flood prevention because floods will make people poorer so they keep voting for them.

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BanduXX Tuesday, 04 June 2024 01:34 PM

As usual it is always someone else's fault. As if politicians have not blocked water pathways and filled up wetlanda with impunity,

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Ram Tuesday, 04 June 2024 02:55 PM

Pramitha is as usual blaming others for the present government's lack of vision on flood preventing action. All the past governments too must take the blame.

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Ram Tuesday, 04 June 2024 02:59 PM

Haphazard construction permits without provision for drainage, filling of marshy lands and small canals to get the filled areas attached to the lands they owned all contributed to flooding. A video is circulating showing how a senior Minister is filling a canal to get road access or widen access

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UAli Tuesday, 04 June 2024 11:03 PM

Agree with you ,in Galle,Ettiligoda,near Bo tree, a man , who worked as a secretary to a former chief minister, filled irrigational canal and put up a timber store on it,now even a little rain,whole area get flooded ,blocking access to temple and maha vidyalaya,but officials hibernating

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AJ Thursday, 06 June 2024 07:05 PM

Due to illegal activities of politicians and their henchmen,people of Galle

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Shera Tuesday, 04 June 2024 03:26 PM

Name them! And why did you not expose them before or sue them for corruption and interference? Everyone slacks and then when disaster happens they blame unnamed people and organizations instead of taking responsibility for their own inaction. You are part of the problem.

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Ruvani Goonewardene Tuesday, 04 June 2024 03:38 PM

Always easy to blame somebody. In the name of flood mitigation must be syphoning money to their pockets . Environmental organizations will never cause damage to the natural environment.

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sudheera S I Kodagoda Tuesday, 04 June 2024 05:32 PM

A qualified party (preferably attached to the government to ensure the impartiality) have to be assigned the task of comprehensive modelling of the existing conditions and bring about the workable solutions

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Nihal S Tuesday, 04 June 2024 06:06 PM

This guy talks Rubbish. What is your qualifications or professional experience (except stealing the public money)?

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Sira Wednesday, 05 June 2024 09:37 AM

No point of blaming environmental organizations. All these happened because of the land fill

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