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Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rape statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/6/2019)TRUE: 1,600 [young] girls are raped every year - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Divaina, 25 October 2019 -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/5/2022)TRUE: Foreign remittances increased during the first 5 months of 2021. It increased by USD 450Mn. However, it started to drop from the sixth month onwards… This January, it [remittances] reduced by 62%.– Anura Kumara ... -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Transport
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/9/2020)PARTLY TRUE: Only 52% of our country uses public transport… 48% of the people use private transportation. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Daily News, 30 November 2019 -
Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Yugadhanawi Kerawalapitiya Power Plant
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/28/2021)TRUE:…Basil Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, presented a cabinet paper and handed over these constructions [to convert the Yugadhanawi Power Plant into an LNG plant] to a US company [New Fortress Energy] ... -
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 -
Anura Priyadharshana Yapa: mobile phone taxes
(factchecklka - Facebook, 1/9/2019)PARTLY TRUE: When a mobile phone user in our country pays Rs. 5,000 [as the mobile phone bill], Rs. 1,600 of it goes towards paying taxes. - ANura Priyadharshana Yapa, 26 October 2018, Divaina -
Anuradha Jayaratne: Prison population
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/21/2023)TRUE: As of today, the total number of inmates in prisons are 28,468. […] the number of drug-related offenders has increased rapidly. As per today 50.3% of the total inmates are people who were imprisoned for drug related ... -
Any president can contest a third term – if 18A is valid
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-11)This INSIGHT discusses the eligibility of twice-elected Sri Lankan presidents to contest a third term. It demonstrates that the textual arguments claiming to disqualify such presidents are mistaken: first, because an ... -
Appointment of Acting Ministers: Parliamentary report cards - Shehan Semasinghe and Premitha Tennakoon
(Manthri.lk, 2023-05-05)This infographic was created as a response to the appointment of two acting ministers by the President during his visit to the United Kingdom to attend the coronation of King Charles III. Accordingly, current State Minister ... -
The APRC: A Primer for Constitutional Consensus = සර්ව පාක්ෂික නියෝජිත කමිටුව: ව්යවස්ථාමය සම්මුතියකට ප්රවේශයක්
(Verité Research, 2016-04)This report is a historical study that aims to: 1. Explain the failure of successive attempts at state reform culminating in the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) process; and 2. Demonstrate that the proposals of ... -
Are Sri Lanka’s exports to India overdependent on concessions?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-05-26)Sri Lanka’s exports as a share of GDP has declined from 33% in 2000 to 13% in 2015. One of the solutions has been to diversify Sri Lanka’s markets. This is because over 50% of Sri Lanka’s exports go to the EU and the United ... -
Asela Gunawardana: Community Transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/12/2021)FALSE: “If it is to reach the community transmission level, the positive rate would have drastically spiraled parallel to the number of PCR tests. At present, Sri Lanka is not experiencing such a situation”. - Asela ... -
Ashok Abeysinghe: Foreign Departures
(www.factcheck.lk, 2024-03-14)PARTLY TRUE: 500 individuals from our country go abroad on a daily basis. In the recent past, between 180,000 and 200,000 individuals per month have gone abroad. The reason why they go abroad is because it’s difficult to ... -
Ashok Abeysinghe: Government Revenue Estimates
(www.factcheck.lk , 1/20/2023)FALSE: …The [2023] budget presented this time is seeking the highest revenue in the entire history of Sri Lanka. Compared to last year, this year’s revenue shows an increase of 70%. In Sri Lanka, at no point has the revenue ... -
Ashok Abeysinghe: Health budget allocations
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/17/2019)TRUE: In 2010, LKR 53.1 billion was allocated for free healthcare; in 2015, we allocated LKR 139.5 billion. In 2016, [it was] LKR 174 billion. In 2019, an amount of LKR 194.5 billion were allocated. This means that 10% of ... -
Ashok Abeysinghe: Organic agriculture statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/19/2021)TRUE: There are only 16 countries in the world that have at least moved towards 10% organic agriculture. No Asian countries are among those 16. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Official Facebook page of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 26 October 2021 -
Ashok Abeysinghe: Passenger transport
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/7/2019)TRUE: As of now, the number of passengers travelling by train is about 400,000… In [bus] passenger transport, the private sector does about 75%, and SLTB buses do 25%. - Ashok Abeysinghe, Divaina, June 24 -
Asian Development Bank (ADB) : Green Power Development and Energy Efficiency Improvement Investment Program - Contract Agreement 2018
(2018-07-04)Included here is the contract agreement of the Green Power Development and Energy Efficiency Improvement Investment Program dated 2018.07.04 - CEB/AGM/TR/2016/ICB/GPDEEIIP2-1A. The project was executed by Ministry of Finance ... -
The attendance of MPs during key budget 2019 debates
(Manthri.lk, 2019-03-29)This Infographic shows the Attendance of MPs during key budget 2019 debates. -
Average Time Taken to Restructure Debt
(2022-06)A country resorts to debt restructuring when its public debt is unsustainable. Debt restructuring involves a substantive default on existing debt contracts. This can occur through an orderly or disorderly process. An orderly ...