FactCheck: Recent submissions
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Anura Kumara Dissanayake: Rajapaksa budget
(www.factcheck.lk, 12/2/2021)FALSE: There are 4 Rajapaksas who represent the cabinet. There is also a state minister as well. How much of funds have been allocated to that family—to the ministries they represent? The total expenditure is 5,200 billion ... -
Udaya Gammanpila: Fuel Imports
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/4/2021)TRUE: Out of the total import expenditure, fuel is the foremost import item upon which more than 20% is spent. - Udaya Gammanpila, Dinamina, 1 October 2021 -
Mahindananda Aluthgamage: Credit cards and tax files
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/25/2021)BLATANTLY FALSE: There are nearly 1,000 tax files in our country. There are over 10 million credit cards in our country. Each credit card holder does transactions of nearly Rs. 1 million to 1.5 million. - Mahindananda ... -
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] ... -
Shantha Bandara: Finance Act 2021
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/21/2021)TRUE:…noteworthy is the fact that [the Finance Act No. 18 of 2021] will not invalidate the Prevention of Money Laundering Act or any other finance law in the country. - Shantha Bandara, Divaina, 10 September 2021 -
Ajith Nivard Cabraal: COVID-19 Expenditure
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/14/2021)FALSE:The Government has spent more than Rs. 700 billion on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and providing relief to people and that it is exactly half of the overall income of this country last year which was Rs. 1,380 ... -
Mahinda Amaraweera: Public Sector Spending
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/7/2021)FALSE: More than 85% of government revenue goes to pay salaries and pensions to public servants. - Mahinda Amaraweera, Media briefing Department of Government Information, 1 September 2021 -
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 -
Basil Rajapaksa: 2021 Government Revenue
(www.factcheck.lk, 11/11/2021)BLATANTLY FALSE: Especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rs. 1500-1600 billion has reduced from the revenue that we should have generated during this year alone. That is even higher than the amount we estimated to be the ... -
Ruwan Wijewardena: Covid-19 death analysis
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/23/2021)PARTLY TRUE: It is said that 10 patients are dying every hour. The rate at which patients are dying is 1.5%. Sri Lanka has become the country that reports the highest death rate in Asia due to COVID-19. - Ruwan Wijewardena, ... -
Sanath Nishantha: GDP growth rankings of Sri Lanka and China
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/26/2021)BLATANTLY FALSE: When we handed over the country to the Yahapalanaya government, China had the highest GDP growth rate in the world, and Sri Lanka was second. - Sanath Nishantha, Lankadeepa, 30 July 2021 -
Ramesh Pathirana: Fuel prices
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/2/2021)PARTLY TRUE: When compared with the countries in the South Asian region, the fuel price of our country is still lower than that of the other countries in the region. Among the countries in this region, only Pakistan provides ... -
Nalaka Godahewa: Population dependence on agriculture sector
(www.factcheck.lk, 8/19/2021)FALSE: Although the contribution by the agriculture sector to the country’s economy is less than 10%, the segment of the population that is dependent on the sector for income is one-third of this country’s population, [that ... -
Sajith Premadasa: Sugar Scam
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/9/2021)TRUE: Sri Lanka has lost Rs. 20 billion as a result of the sugar scam. - Sajith Premadasa, Official Facebook page of Sajith Premadasa, 27 August 2021 -
Keheliya Rambukwella: Domestic milk production
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/16/2021)TRUE: [Local] milk production is still only around 40 per cent of the total requirement. - Keheliya Rambukwella, Daily News, 11 August 2021 -
Eran Wickramaratne: Sri Lanka's record cost of interest
(www.factcheck.lk, 9/30/2021)TRUE: 70% of government revenue is spent on interest on loan repayment. Lebanon is the only country in the world that pays higher interest than Sri Lanka as a percentage of national revenue. - Eran Wickramaratne, Daily ... -
Namal Rajapaksa: Controlling COVID-19
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/21/2021)FALSE: In the South Asian Region, the country that has most successfully controlled the pandemic is Sri Lanka - Namal Rajapaksa, Mawbima, 12 July 2021 -
Dayasiri Jayasekara: Tourism earnings
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/29/2021)TRUE: The tourism industry has collapsed completely following the Easter Sunday attacks and following this COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the collapse of the tourism industry, we have lost USD 5 billion per year that the country ... -
Sajith Premadasa: Fisheries Industry
(www.factcheck.lk, 7/1/2021)TRUE: The fisheries industry contributes to 1.1% of Sri Lanka's GDP, according to the 2019 CBSL report. - Sajith Premadasa, Divaina, 3 June 2021 -
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka: Money Printing and Debt
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/25/2021)PARTLY TRUE: From the day this government came into power to March this year, LKR 831 billion has been printed. - Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Mawbima, 3 May 2021