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Here they come — three more foundations
View(s):The trend of setting up foundations in the name of MPs and former MPs will continue in Parliament this week with three new bills scheduled to be introduced in the House on Tuesday.
They include the Bill to incorporate the Maithripala Sirisena Lakdaru Diriya Foundation. It will be introduced by UPFA National List MP Malith Jayathilake.
The other two bills are to incorporate the “Saravanapavan Foundation” and the “Mahipala Herath Janasahana Foundation”.
E. Saravavapavan is TNA MP from the Jaffna District while Mahipala Herath is the Chief Minister of the Sabaragamuwa Province and a former parliamentarian.
This year alone several bills have been presented to Parliament to incorporate foundations in the name of lawmakers. They include S. B. Nawinna Foundation, Sisira Jayakody Siyapatha Foundation, Rajitha Senaratne Foundation, Arundika Fernando Relief Services and Godfrey Fernando Memorial Foundation, Hisbullah Foundation, Susantha Punchinilame Foundation, Roshan Ranasinghe Janasahana Foundation and the Sujeewa Senasinghe Foundation.
There are also bills pending to set up foundations in the name of two late MPs Bertie Dissanayaka and M.K.D.S.Gunawardena.
Most foundations have social welfare activities as their objective and once enacted by Parliament they have the authority to receive or collect grants, gifts, donations, subsidies, endowments and subscriptions whether in cash or kind from donors in Sri Lanka or elsewhere.