7 February 2019 09:23 pm
He told parliament that there were 25,800 elevators being used in Sri Lanka but none of them had been registered.
"We will introduce a mechanism so that all these elevators should be registered annually. A copy of the certification should be displayed on the elevator. We will present a cabinet paper in this regard next week," he said.
He said an individual was killed due to an incident involving an elevator at Nawam Mawatha a few weeks ago and added that the President and the Prime Minister made recommendations after the incident that a mechanism should be initiated so that there is someone to take responsibility on incidents involving elevators.
He made this statement following an incident where some MPs got trapped in a Parliament elevator today. (Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera)