Video: Port City project suspended

5 March 2015 03:52 am

The Cabinet has decided to suspend the Chinese-funded Colombo Port City Project as it had started without relevant approvals from concerned institutions, Minister Rajitha Senaratne said today.     


Addressing the weekly cabinet news briefing in Colombo, the minister said the Cabinet had yet consented to a decision to advise the company which is carrying out the port city project to present approvals obtained from the relevant authorities within two weeks.


“Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made the proposal based on the interim report submitted by the committee appointed to review and submit recommendations to the Cabinet Sub Committee on the Port City Project. The report states the project had been started without relevant approvals,” he said. (Lahiru Pothmulla)