Rs.61.5 million spent on Deyata Kirula exhibition centre

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A sum of Rs.61.5 million had been spent for the exhibition centre of the ‘Deyata Kirula’ Exhibition 2012 in Anurdhapura while several millions had been spent for the water supply facilities, Parliament was informed yesterday.

This was revealed in the report on the supplementary allocation which was presented to the House by the Chief Government Whip Dinseh Gunawardene yesterday.

The Government also sought the approval for the allocation of a further Rs.7 million for the Deyata Kirula Exhibition Center as recurrent exhibition.

Meanwhile it was also revealed that Rs.1 million had been sought by the Department of External Resources to meet the expenditure of printing documents that were submitted to Parliament along with the Budget Speech 2012.

The Ministry of External Affairs had sought an allocation of Rs.6.5 million to meet the expenditure related to the 33rd Annual Forum of Parliamentarians for Global Action that was held in Sri Lanka from October 28 to 30, 2011.

Supplementary allocations have also been made for the purchasing of vehicles for various ministries and other government institutions. Accordingly allocations were sought to purchase vehicles for the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Minor Crop Promotion, the Auditor General’s Department, the Ministry of Education, and for the vehicle rental for the Department of National Budget. Funds were also sought for the payment of salaries of various ministries and institutions. (Yohan Perera)

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Comments - 8

Nodrog Saturday, 11 February 2012 04:11 AM

What did this accomplish? Don't we have better things to with our 'borrowed' money?

citizen1 Saturday, 11 February 2012 04:44 AM

miracle...

Calistus Jayatilleke Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:03 AM

It is high time the government made a determined effort to cut down on wasteful expenditure for shch Tamashas as Deyata Kirula which only help to prop up the egos of the politicians and their offsprings. This is definitely not the way a responsible government should behave in time of recession.

Kangarro Saturday, 11 February 2012 07:01 AM

Useless showoffs

Lanka Saturday, 11 February 2012 07:35 AM

It is a big show for the govt regardless the debt that we are in.

sdherath Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:03 AM

dear calistus, since when this government behaved responsibly??

Yuri Saturday, 11 February 2012 07:41 PM

Thank yu China

Laspath Saturday, 11 February 2012 11:57 PM

Conducting exhibitions is a professional actvity. In universities there are special courses on Event Management for this kind of exhibitions. The main objective of such exhibition should be the improvement of the infrastructure, awareness of other poeople regarding the city, which the exhibition is held.
In our exhibitions, we hardly improve infrastructure of those places. What we do is fix buildings temporarily. All are temporary work Nothing will remain after the exhibition.
This is just wasting public money. These exhibitions are useful, but should conduct in a professional manner.

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