Any government cannot be satisfied just by presenting an appropriation bill and it is the responsibility of the government and public officials to fulfil the proposals and matters mentioned therein and whether the proposals are implemented or not and the progress should be reported, but the current government has not fulfilled the proposals for the 2023 budget. The opposition leader said that it is seen. Sri Lanka Latest News
Also, the success of the budget proposals presented by the government for the new year is based on the success of last year’s budget proposals, and although the government proposed the establishment of a task force to monitor the budget proposals in last year’s budget proposal 71, the opposition leader said that this proposal has not been implemented. Mr. Sajith Premadasa said.
The opposition leader said this today (14) under the standing order 27 (2) in Parliament.
According to a survey by Verity Research, 97 per cent of the 50 specific proposals in the 2023 budget had no specific information on what was spent, and 17 of the top 25 proposals last year were missing or untraceable. The Leader of the Opposition said.
There are problems with the credibility of the budget
The opposition leader, who asked about the reasons and responsibility for the lack of information related to the budget, which was 12 per cent in 2017, and increased to 97 percent by 2023, said that since there is a problem with the credibility of a budget, attention should be paid to responsibility and accountability, and if not, the next year’s budget and cannot be trusted.
There is no information on 69 out of 77 proposals of 2023
The Research Division of the Office of the Leader of the Opposition, together with a group of economic experts, conducted a survey on 77 budget proposals for 2023. Among them, the information of 69 proposals was incomplete, among them the information of 12 proposals (17%) had not been disclosed, 16 projects had not been started and 29 projects ( The opposition leader said that the progress of 42%) is less than 50 percent and the progress of 12 projects is more than 50 percent.
Not sure about the 2024 budget
Moreover, according to the 2023 proposals, Rs. Mr. 139 provincial council schools out of 200 and 23 national schools have been proposed to provide sanitary facilities, but it has not been implemented, university entrance has not been based on merit, the board to look into the status of university degrees has not been prepared, and the foreign scholarship program is still under discussion. The leader of the opposition said that the Global Climate Change University and the Sri Lankan History Research Institute have not even started and because of this they cannot be trusted with the 2024 budget proposals.
Mr. Sajith Premadasa, the leader of the opposition, added that the mistakes of history should not be implemented, but the mistakes should be corrected and moved forward. Some of the proposals this time have been presented and money allocated even in 2023, but they have not been implemented.
