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Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Postal Department
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/12/2020)TRUE: "The Postal Department is currently running at a loss of about Rs 6 billion. It generates an income of Rs 8 billion annually. The department’s expenditure runs to about Rs 14 billion on account of having overtime ... -
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Government Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2020)FALSE: "When I was the Prime Minister, the government revenue was LKR 150,000 million. The revenue last month was LKR 50,000 million. LKR 90,000 million is needed to pay the salaries and pensions of the public servants." ... -
National Freedom Front: Auditor General's duties under 20A
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)TRUE: The provision under which companies registered under the Registrar of Companies and of which the government is the majority shareholder, have been removed from the audit process of the Auditor General [in the proposed ... -
Wigneswaran: Unemployment disparity
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/31/2020)FALSE: “Unemployment in our war-affected areas have exceeded 10% while the national average proportion of unemployment is less than 6%.” - C. V. Wigneswaran, Daily FT, 12 September 2020 -
Mahinda Rajapakse: Budget Deficit
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2020)FALSE: “…the budget deficit which my government brought down to 5.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, has increased to over 9.6 percent of the GDP by 2019… outstanding unpaid bills amounted to Rs. 243 billion, ... -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Foreign debt payment
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/26/2020)TRUE: We have to pay close to USD 400 million a month in [foreign] debt. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Lankadeepa, 12 October 2020 -
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Agriculture
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2020)FALSE: 40% of the population is directly employed in agriculture. - Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Mawbima, 17 August 2020 -
Sajith Premadasa: Government's tax revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/4/2020)FALSE: In the first seven months of 2020, the government's tax revenue was reduced by 40.9 percent in comparison with that same period last year. - Sajith Premadasa. Divaina, 7 October 2020 -
Nimal Siripala De Silva: Tea Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/4/2021)TRUE: Tea export volumes in 2020 declined by 9.2% or 27 million kilos to 265.5 million kilos from the previous year, whilst in value terms, the performance was down by Rs. 10.4 billion or 4.3% to Rs. 230.1 billion from ... -
Eran Wickramaratne: Foreign investment
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/25/2021)TRUE: There has been a big outflow of foreign investment from the stock exchange. In terms of rupee value, Rs. 51 billion outflows was registered in the year 2020… - Eran Wickramaratne, Lanka Business Online, 18 January 2021 -
Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: Forest Cover
(www.factcheck.lk, 2/5/2021)TRUE: Sri Lanka's forest cover is only 29.2 percent. - Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Lankadeepa, 9 December 2020 -
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: Foreign Reserves
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/28/2021)TRUE: We had USD 8.2 billion in reserves… When the good governance government handed us the government, there was only USD 7.6 billion in reserves. - Ajith Nivard Cabraal, Mawbima, 7 January 2021 -
Patali Champika Ranawaka: Money Printing
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/21/2021)TRUE: Rs. 130 billion rupees has been printed from November 1 to December 1. - Patali Champika Ranawaka, Aruna, 11 December 2020 -
Ruwan Wijewardene: Health Allocations
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/7/2021)PARTLY TRUE: The amount allocated for the Health Ministry while this crisis is ongoing is Rs. 158 billion for 2021, that’s down Rs. 20 billion from 2019… You can see where the government’s priorities are. - Ruwan Wijewardene, ... -
College of Community Physicians: COVID-19 Burials
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/14/2021)TRUE: WHO, CDC and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control had issued clear and extensive guidelines on handling dead bodies confirmed or suspected as having COVID-19… all these global pandemic control ... -
G.L. Peiris: Presidential Immunity under 19A
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2020)FALSE: As long as 19A is in force, the president has to waste his time in courts…That is why immunity is needed… - G.L. Peiris, Aruna, 8 September 2020 -
Harini Amarasuriya: Female Labor Force Participation
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/22/2020)TRUE: ..according to the 2009 [sic, 2019] Annual Report from the Central Bank, the female labour force participation rate of Sri Lanka was 34.5%. It was 73% for men... We have one of the lowest female labour force participation ... -
GL Peiris: 19A Dissolution
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2020)TRUE: Before the 19th Amendment, when a new president was elected, he had the power to dissolve parliament and to call for an election to elect a parliament that would be in alignment with his policies… [After the 19th ... -
Economics of the broken window is applicable to corruption
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-03-04)The Sirisena presidency and the UNP that championed it have been endorsed by the ballot with the hope that they will take action against the rampant corruption that was felt to be hurting the public welfare under the ... -
Strengthening Parliament Critical for Credible Budgets
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-12)Sri Lanka’s budgets show considerable variation between publicly declared budget allocations and actual expenditure on line items. This gap can create a credibility problem. There is a specific section in Sri Lankan laws ...