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Oversight Committees to monitor 16 subjects
View(s):The Government yesterday placed on the Order Paper of Parliament a motion to set up “Sectoral Oversight Committees” in relation to 16 subjects. These Committees will have the power to examine all Bills, Resolutions, Treaties, Reports and other matters relating to their subjects.
The motion has been proposed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Ministers Lakshman Kiriella, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Gayantha Karunatilleke and Dayasiri Jayasekera. The areas for which the oversight committees are to be set up are Economic Development, International Relations, National Security, Sustainable Development and Environment and Natural Resources, Women and Gender, Education and Human Resources Development, Health and Human Welfare and Social Empowerment, Transport and Communication, Agriculture and Lands, Legal Affairs (anti-corruption) and Media, Youth, Sports, Arts and Heritage, Business and Commerce, Energy, Manufacturing and Services, Internal Administration and Public Management, Reconciliation and North & East Reconstruction.