Report of the Committee on Public Enterprises on the Rice ... · M. Rizwan Hameem, Chairman, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment M.N. Nazeer, Deputy Chairman, Cooperative Wholesale

Parliamentary Series No. 179

of

The Eighth Parliament of

The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

(First Session)

Report of the

Committee on Public Enterprises on

the Rice Import Process of Lanka Sathosa Limited

In the year 2014 and 2015

Presented by

Hon. Sunil Handunnetti

Chairman of the Committee

On 07th of April2017

Ordered by Parliament of Sri Lanka to be printed on

07th April 2017

Parliamentary Series No 179

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Report of the Committee on Public Enterprises on the Rice Import Process of Lanka Sathosa Limited In the year 2014 and 2015

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Committee on Public Enterprises

Eighth Parliament (First Session)

The Committee on Public Enterprises was appointed for the first session of the eighth Parliament on

26 November 2015 with a membership of 24 MPP. The present membership of the Committee is as

follows.

1. Hon. Sunil Handunnetti (Chairman)

2. Hon. Rauff Hakeem

3. Hon. Anura Priyadarshana Yapa

4. Hon. Dayasiri Jayasekara

5. Hon. Lakshman Senevirathna

6. Hon. Raveendra Samaraweera

7. Hon. Sujeewa Senasinghe

8. Hon. Wasantha Aluvihare

9. Hon. Lasantha Alagiyawanna

10. Hon. (Dr.) Harsha de Silva

11. Hon. Ajith P. Perera

12. Hon. Ranjan Ramanayaka

13. Hon. Ashok Abeysingha

14. Hon. Anura Dissanayaka

15. Hon. Chandrasiri Gajadeera

16. Hon. Mahindananda Aluthgamage

17. Hon. Bimal Rathnayaka

18. Hon. Weerakumara Dissanayka

19. Hon. Mave Senadhiraja

20. Hon. Abdulla Maharoof

21. Hon. S. Sridharan

22. Hon. M. A. Sumandiran

23. Hon. Hector Appuhami

24. Hon. (Dr.) Nalinda Jayatissa

25. Hon. Harshana Rajakaruna

26. Hon. Gnanamuttu Srinesan


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Content

1. Report of the Committee

2. Annexures

2.1 Special Audit Report presented by the Auditor General on the request made by the

Committee on Public Enterprises of Parliament with regard to the rice importation process

of Ceylon Wholesale Establishment Ltd, during 2014 and 2015.

2.2 Verbatim Report of the Committee on Public Enterprises on Tuesday 20 September 2016.


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Officials summoned before the Committee on Public Enterprises for giving oral evidence -18-

05-2016

Mr. T.M.K.B. Tennakoon, Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mrs. Seetha Senaratne, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mr. V.M. Weerasinghe, Chief Financial Officer, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mr. G. Wijesiri, Chief Internal Auditor, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mrs. Indika Ranatunga, Director (Cooperatives and Statutory Boards), Ministry of Industries and

Commerce

M. Rizwan Hameem, Chairman, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

M.N. Nazeer, Deputy Chairman, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. A.U.M. Yazeer, Director, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. A.M.P.M.B. Atapattu, Director Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. D. Jeewanandan, Director, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. M.S.K. Kumarawardane, Director, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. P.L. Thirimanna, Director, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. Vipual Kithsiri Silva, General Manager (Acting), Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mrs. G.V.P.R. de Silva, Deputy General Manager (Finance Division) (Acting), Cooperative

Wholesale Establishment

Mrs. M.B.N.N. Sanjeewani, Former Head of Finance Division, Cooperative Wholesale

Establishment

Mr. H.W.W.D.R.P. Edirisinghe, Former Deputy General Manager, Cooperative Wholesale

Establishment

Mr. K.K.J.P. Premathilake, Deputy Finance Manager, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mrs. Pradeepika Lakmali Jayasinghe, Secretary to Board of Directors/ Legal Officer, Cooperative


Mr. R.G. Samaraweera, Internal Auditor, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. S.L.M.D.J.S. Samaratunga, Manager (Transport), Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. T. Dharmaraja, Chartered Accountant, (Amarasekara Associates), Cooperative Wholesale

Establishment

Mr. A.M. Dias, Chartered Accountant, (Amarasekara Assocaites), Cooperative Wholesale

Establishment


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Officials summoned before the Committee on Public Enterprises for giving oral evidence -20-

09-2016

Mr. T.M.K.B. Tennakoon, Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mrs. Seetha Senaratne, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mr. V.M. Weerasinghe, Chief Financial Officer, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mr. T.O.R. Wanigaratne, Chief Accountant, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mr. G. Wijesiri, Chief Internal Auditor, Ministry of Industries and Commerce

Mrs. Indika Ranatunga, Director (Cooperatives and Statutory Boards), Ministry of Industries and

Commerce

M. Rizwan Hameem, Chairman, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

M.N. Nazeer, Deputy Chairman, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. A.U.M. Yazeer, Director, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. A.M.P.M.B. Atapattu, Director Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. D. Jeewanandan, Director, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. M.S.K. Kumarawardane, Director, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. P.L. Thirimanna, Director, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. Vipual Kithsiri Silva, General Manager (Acting), Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mrs. G.V.P.R. de Silva, Deputy General Manager (Finance Division) (Acting), Cooperative


Mr.K.K.J.P. Premathilake, Deputy Finance Manager, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. A.M.M. Ebrahim, Deputy General Manager, (Human Resources/ Administrative), Cooperative


M.M. Bibulawela, Deputy General Manager, (Marketing/Investment/Promotional), Cooperative


Mrs. Pradeepika Lakmali Jayasinghe, Secretary to Board of Directors/ Legal Officer, Cooperative


Mrs. D. Buddhika Perera, Accountant, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. S.H. Ajith Indrasiri, Manager, (Marketing/Distribution/ Rice Mills), Cooperative Wholesale

Establishment

Mr. R.G. Samaraweera, Internal Auditor, Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. Ranjith Edirisinghe, Consultant (Marketing), Cooperative Wholesale Establishment

Mr. Lalith Abeysirigunawardane, Chairman, (CWE Construction Ltd)

Mr. Roshantha N.A. Athukorale, Chairman, Lanka Sathosa

Mr. M.F.M. Hadad, Member of Board of Directors, Lanka Sathosa


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Mr. A.M.U. Yazeer, Member of Board of Directors, Lanka Sathosa

Mr.M.H.M. Safraz, Member of Board of Directors, Lanka Sathosa

Mr. Rizwan Hameen, Member of Board of Directors, Lanka Sathosa

Mr. R. Rushanthan, Member of Board of Directors, Lanka Sathosa

Mr. A.P. Kurumbalapitiya, Member of Board of Directors, Lanka Sathosa

Mr. Rajeewa Herath Meewakkala, Chief Executive Officer, Lanka Sathosa

Mr. Rasika Prashantha Punchihewa, Deputy General Manager (Finance), Lanka Sathosa

Mr. D.M.Sanath Sisira Kumara, Deputy General Manager (Procurement), Lanka Sathosa

Miss Nadeeshani Amaratunga, Senior Accountant, Lanka Sathosa

Mr. L.U.L. Jayasinghe, Manager (Operations), Lanka Sathosa

Mr. P.G. Suranga Uadya Kumara, Internal Auditor, Lanka Sathosa

Mr. O. Somapala, Import Assistant, Lanka Sathosa


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Report

At the meeting of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) held on 20th September 2016, the

committee directed that the report of the audit conducted by Lanka Sathosa using the retired auditors

in relation to the import of 257559 metric tons of rice by the Lanka Sathosa Limited on several

occasions during the period from September 2014 to February 2015, the report of the investigation

conducted by the Public Health Inspectors to determine the standard of rice, the report of the

investigation conducted by the five member committee and a copy of the decision of the director Board

that decided the quantity of rice to be imported, be submitted to COPE within two weeks of time and

that based on all the reports mentioned above, a report be provided by the Auditor General within a

period of one month.

1.Introduction

Accordingly, the special audit report submitted by the Auditor General was presented to COPE on 02nd

January, 2017. This report has been formulated focusing on the amounts of rice that had been imported

by Lanka Sathosa during the period from September, 2014 to February 2015 and on the manner in

which the aforesaid rice was issued to the market, having inspected the documents, books and by doing

other relevant inspections by the Auditor General. In addition, this report includes the

recommendations given by the Members of COPE when it was presented to and discussed in COPE in

Parliament.

The following information were disclosed when the officers of Cooperative wholesale Establishment

and the officers of the Lanka Sathosa Limited were summoned before COPE of 8th Parliament for the

purpose of obtaining verbal evidence on 20th September 2016.

Mrs.Indika Ranathunga, , Director ( Cooperatives and Statutory Boards) of the Ministry of Industry

and commerce stated that an amount of 257559 metric tons of rice has been imported to Sri Lanka as

white raw rice, Nadu and Samba varieties by Lanka Sathosa in the year 2014 and that an approximate

loss of 6 million has incurred to Sathosa as they had to sell a kilo at a price of Rs.50-55 although it was

imported at a rate of Rs.73.

Mr. L.U. L. Jayasinghe, Manager( Operations) of Lanka Sathosa stated that as per the memorandum

presented to the Cabinet to import rice, going by the information regarding a shortage rice in the

country, approval had been granted to import 50000 metric tons of rice and also that cabinet approval

was further granted to ‘ import rice by Lak Sathosa in portions of 5000 metric tons each and to take

action to sell through its sales outlet network’. Nonetheless it was disclosed at the examination of

evidence that Lak Sathosa has imported the bulk of 50000 metric tons at once and that the said decision

had been taken by the then Chairman.

In response to the queries made by the Hon. members of the Committee as to how 257000 metric tons

have been imported with the approval obtained to import 50000 metric tons, Mr. L.U.L. Jayasinghe,

Manager (Operations) of Lanka Sathosa agreed to submit the documents that confirm the fact that the

aforesaid additional amount of rice has been imported with the agreement or the recommendation of

the Ministry of Finance .


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Mr. L.U.L. Jayasinghe, Manager (Operations) of Lanka Sathosa further stated the remaining rice stocks

could not be sold that as these stocks were sealed within a few days with the intervention of the Public

health inspectors and the Presidential Commission, when it was finally attempted to sell the remaining

quantity of rice at wholesale prices by calling tenders. Although It was decided, when submissions

were made to the judiciary, that the stock of rice should be completely sold within two months, it was

decided to sell the aforesaid stock of rice to the animal feed production companies to be utilized for

animal feed as per a cabinet memorandum re-submitted by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce

and that Mr. L.U.L. Jayasinghe, Manager( Operations) of Lanka Sathosa further stated that

accordingly, an amount of 53000 metric tons was sold for animal feed with the approval of the

judiciary.

Mr. L.U. L Jayasinghe, Manager( Operations) of Lanka Sathosa also stated that the reason which

contributed for the public health inspectors to seal the stores was not known to him and that a

committee consisting of five specialists was appointed by the cabinet to look into the standard of rice

and that the aforesaid committee recommended that 85000 metric tons were at the expected standard

and that 3000 metric tons were not suitable for consumption. He pointed out that however, the

prevailing circumstances made it difficult to sell this rice owing to the detrimental publicity given

through media regarding the expired 3000 metric tons of rice and that rice got spoilt during the period

of 5-6 months in which the judicial approval for selling this rice stock was pending.

Mr.T.M.K.B. Thennakoon , secretary to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce stated that the public

health inspectors were not in agreement with the report of the committee appointed to inspect the rice

stock and that it has been decided that this rice is suitable for consumption as per the report of MRI

institute on this stock of rice.

Sathosa presented facts to the effect that the rice samples were obtained only after 4-5 months and

that the rice would have got further spoilt during the period in which the rice stock was sealed.

The committee informed Sathosa that submissions would have been made to the judiciary if the

accurate methodologies had not been adopted by the Public health inspectors when obtaining an

experiment sample from the rice stored. Mrs.Indika Ranathunga, , Director ( Cooperatives and

Statutory Boards) of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce stated that this has been extensively

discussed in the economic committee led by the Hon. Prime minister , and that the economic committee

once even decided to destroy the whole stock of rice by dumping into the sea owing to the statement

made by the Public health inspectors to the effect that the whole stock is unsuitable.

The COPE directed that the report of the Public health inspectors, the report of the MRI institution,

the report submitted by the auditors and the report of the committee of five members be submitted it.

Similarly, the committee instructed the auditor general to present a detailed report to the committee,

having investigated all the aforesaid reports.

Similarly, Hon. chairman inquired about the sum of Rupees 1.6 billion(1,644,762,972) which has

been paid to the Ports Authority and Sri Lanka customs as demurrage charges owing to the delay in

the clearance of rice stocks from the harbor which was resulted by the sudden import of rice stocks

within a limited period.

Mr.T.M.K.B. Thennakoon , secretary to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce who stated that Lak

sathosa didn’t possess such a strong mechanism so as to import and distribute such an immense stock

of rice , pointed out that a complete investigation should be carried out on the facts related to the import

and distribution of this stock of rice.


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As per these decisions of the committee, the auditor general submitted a special audit report to COPE

on 30thDcember, 2016 having reinvestigated the relevant facts and reports.

As per the brief note prepared by the auditor general for the meeting on COPE held on 20th September,

2016, the process of importing rice is as follows.

3.2 The Corporation has imported 257907 metric tons of rice on several occasions during the period

from September 2014 to February 2015 in the following manner.

Date of

Letter of

Credit

Number of letter of

credit

Amount(M.Tons) Variety of rice Value

2014.09.01 42002140224186 50000 White rice 2838000000

2014.12.03 42002140033274 31351 Ponni rice 2110751280

2014.12.03 42002140033283 30350 White rice 1603800000

2014.09.23 42002140026193 1040 Boiled rice 62462400

2014.10.30 BDT-M63537 4925 Ponni samba 317255242

2014.11.05 BDT-M63519 4887 Nadu 263177038

2014.10.29 BDT-M064568

DP TERMS

25000

29262

Boiled rice

Ponni samba and

nadu

1485000000

1846650696

2015.02.10 BDT-M 63537 43384 Ponni samba 3052287744

2015.02.10 BDT-M 63519 37705 Ponni samba 2428805280

Total - 257907 - 16008189680

The following observations were made pertaining to this matter.

(i) The rice importation process had started after an issue related to the shortage of rice in the

market was brought to the notice of the Secretary to the Ministry of Cooperatives and

Internal Trade during a District Development Committee meeting of the Kegalle District.

Although the Secretary to the Ministry had instructed that information on the price of rice

in the market be obtained and reported and that current status be reported after inquiring

from the Lanka Sathosa, the action that can be taken in this regard, these instructions had

not been implemented. Instead, a Cabinet Paper to import 50,000mt of rice to maintain a

buffer stock and prevent a shortage of rice in the market had been presented to the Cabinet.


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(ii) Although Cabinet approval was initially granted to import 50,000mt of rice in bulks of

5,000mt using storage facilities available at the Food Commissioner’s Department and

based on the short term loan facilities available at the Lanka Sathosa, the total of 50,000mt

had been imported at once in contravention to the instructions issued.

(iii) Importation of rice has been carried out without following the procurement procedure.

(iv) An expense of Rs. 5,334,376/- had been borne for obtaining storage facilities for 30th June

2016 from the Food Commissioner’s Department.

(v) Private sector storage facilities too have been obtained in addition to storage facilities of

the Food Commissioner’s Department. These have been obtained without following the

procurement procedure and a sum of Rs. 199,787,550 had been paid for these storage

facilities by 30 June 2016 while Rs. 8,283,000 had been paid for storage insurance.

(vi) Out of the seven letters of credit opened with Treasury approval, two have expired in

February 2015. Although Treasury approval had not been received to extend the time period

of these LCs, they had been extended and 81,089mt of rice had been imported with these

despite the lack of a rice requirement of such nature.

(vii) By 30 June 2016, Sri Lanka Customs and Sri Lanka Ports have been paid Rs. 1,644,762,972

as charges for clearing imported rice and as demurrages.

(viii) An expense of Rs. 15,213,807 had been borne by 30 June 2016 for the fumigation of

imported rice.

(ix) The treasury had instructed that imported rice be sold at the concessionary price hence a

loss of Rs. 2,358,791,589 was incurred.

(x) Rice which had been imported without identifying the actual requirement, was stored under

sub-standard conditions. Except for the 176,208mt which was sold, the remaining rice stock

was spoilt. Therefore Public Health Inspectors had sealed the stores stating that the rice is

unsuitable for human consumption.

(xi) Cabinet approval was granted to issue the spoilt rice for animal feed. A loss of Rs.

2,894,978,436 was incurred by selling rice at Rs. 38 per kilo up to 30th June 2016.

(xii) A total loss of Rs. 5,253,770,025 had incurred by 30 June 2016 as a result of selling rice at

the concessionary price and selling spoilt rice for animal feed.


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Information on rice stocks at the end of each month in years 2014 and 2015 as cited in the

Special Audit Report of the Auditor General which was submitted as per the request of the

Committee on Public Enterprises with reference to the process of rice importation by the

Lanka Sathosa Ltd. in years 2014 and 2015

Year Month Monthly Stock (mt) Number of months it

would take to sell the

stock Ponni

Samba

Nadu White Rice Total

2014 January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November 5,435 8,943 32,153 46,531

December 2,878 9,800 37,820 50,498

2015 January 1,016 19,347 37,646 58,009

February 27,203 24,971 30,176 82,350

March 23,680 28,604 33,362 85,646

April 7,828 14,804 30,427 53,059

May 27,462 11,856 26,969 66,287

June 37,278 14,495 23,625 75,398


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July 35,255 11,546 21,032 67,833

August 35,794 10,387 18,782 64,963

September 51,028 9,352 16,523 76,903

October 50,719 7,830 13,323 71,872

November 46,847 (29,239) 10,468 28,076

December 56,470 3,472 6,977 66,919

The manner in which Lanka Sathosa had purchased rice

Lanka Sathosa had purchased rice in the following manner during years 2014 and 2015.

The Basis of Purchasing Amount

(Metric Ton)

CIF Value

(Rs.)

(a). Purchasing locally produced rice 46,668 2,688,941,911

(b). Purchasing imported rice from the local market 18,134 1,199,495,609

(c). Purchasing rice directly from the foreign market on

easy payment schemes

29,262 1,851,055,933

(d). Purchasing rice directly from the foreign market by

Lanka Sathosa on letters of credit

1,040 62,634,808

(e). Purchasing rice from the foreign market on the

approval of the Cabinet

75,002 4,347,942,373

(f). Purchasing rice from the foreign market with the

concurrence of the Treasury

152,255 9,734,901,658

Total

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322,361

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19,884,972,292

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Total cost on imported rice.

A total of Rs.27,011,980,142 had to be spent as follows on purchasing 257,559 metric tons of rice as

per the information dated 10 July 2016, dated 03,29 and 30 November 2016, dated 01 December

2016, dated 10 December 2016 and dated 29 November 2016 provided by the Minister of Ports and

Shipping, the Senior Accountant of Lanka Sathosa, the Director General of Sri Lanka Customs, the

Senior Manager of the Bank of Ceylon, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Ceylon

respectively:

Type of Expenditure Value (Rs.)

CIF value of 257,559 metric tons of imported rice. 15,996,534,772

Customs duty payable 5,835,656,743

Loan interest paid and payable (Bank of Ceylon and People’s Bank) 1,931,434,240

Charges for clearance, transport and demurrage for imported rice 1,712,645,855

Demurrage paid and payable to the port and other expenses 694,325,310

Harbour dues 404,307,958

Rent for private warehouses 213,038,701

Customs duty paid 132,770,828

Warehouse labour charges 52,100,114

Fumigation charges 15,318,179

Penalty interest payable for outstanding loan amount with People’s Bank 7,994,752

Warehouse insurance fees 6,455,731

Deposits for state warehouses 5,287,830

Expenses on electricity supply to warehouses 1,932,160

Rental for state warehouses 1,849,969

Expenses on legal matters 327,000

Grand Total --------------------

27,011,980,142

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As identified by the Committee, the government had had to bear a huge additional cost due to such

importation of rice and due to the subsequent activities related to such importation. As discovered by

the Committee, there are several reasons as to why such additional costs had been borne:


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Taking steps to import large quantities of rice having concluded that there was or there would

be a scarcity of rice supplies based on the observations made only by a certain institute or group

from one part of the country and without carrying out any scientific study about the real

situation in the country;

Acting in contravention of the Cabinet decisions and not submitting to the Cabinet all required

facts and data when obtaining Cabinet decisions;

Not following a proper procurement procedure or creation of a confusing situation as fair bids

had not been submitted consequent to taking of action without following the due procurement

procedures and the consequent loss incurred;

The cost that had to be borne on paying rental for additional warehouse facilities since a huge

quantity of rice had been imported without taking into consideration the actual requirement;

The cost that had to be borne to address the situation that resulted due to the lack of adequate

and / or appropriate warehouse facilities for storing the imported quantities of rice following

proper, scientific standards;

The loss that had to be incurred due to spoiling of rice stocks as they had not been stored

following proper standards or methods;

Financial loss that was caused as regular physical verifications of rice stocks in warehouses had

not been done;

The loss that was caused due to spoiling of rice stocks consequent to the delay in completing

the legal process as the relevant parties made submissions before the Court with regard to the

shortcomings or oversights in the methodology adopted in determining the suitability /

unsuitability of the rice stocks as disclosed before the Committee;

The cost that had been borne due to the long delay in clearing from the harbour the imported

stocks of rice; and

The loss that had to be incurred as those stocks of rice had been spoilt inside the very containers

in which they had been imported.

Together with the above findings, the following general observations, too, were taken into

consideration at the discussions of the Committee.

Lack of proper attention / guidance by the Secretary to the Treasury in the process of

importation of rice.

Importing rice to Sri Lanka in years 2012, 2013 and 2015 despite that the local production of

rice created an oversupply against the actual consumption.

Exporting rice in year 2013 and 2014 , though there was a shortage of rice in year 2014

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Cost of living subcommittee not taking measures based on correct facts or non-submission

of correct facts to aforesaid committee.

Importing huge stocks of rice without performing an accurate survey and an analysis on

existing stocks of rice within the country .

Having a problematic situation with regard to information and data provided to audit by Lanka

Sathosa.

Having huge differences in import documents and ware house documents with regard to

the stocks of rice as there is no accurate facts on the rice that is stocked in containers and

failure to include correct facts in stock documents ,

As a result of failure to submit correct information on monthly sale of rice and stocks of

rice available ,being unable to have an analysis on the stocks available in Lanka Sathosa

, at the time that this stock of rice was imported .

The conclusions of the special audit report of Auditor General on importation of 257,

559 metric tons of rice by Lanka Sathosa on some occasions from September 2014 to

February 2015 .

(a) It is concluded that the rice importation process that of 250, 693 metric tons to

the value of Rs 15,691,695,005 CIF cost, has not been carried out in keeping with the

main objectives of a procurement process namely;

having maximum economic benefits as a result of maintaining high quality and minimum

cost ;

engaging in quality procurement in time ;

working according to stipulated, criterions , standards , rules and regulations;

Providing fair, equal and maximum opportunities to the qualified and interested parties

in order to engage in procurement process;

Immediate Supply of goods and services ; and

Certifying the transparency and certaininty of assessment and selection process;

(b)it is concluded that the officers responsible for loss incurred to the tune of Rs. 15,

157,031,018 that was revealed in the report , should be identified and the procurement process

should be systematized in a way that such losses would not be incurred in time to come .

(c) it is concluded that sufficient attention has not been drawn with regard to the impact on

agro economy due to importation of rice .

(d) it is concluded that there were occasions that certain important information relating to

decision making on procurement had not been submitted to the Cabinet through cabinet

papers .

(e) it is further concluded that the officers concerned are responsible for not taking

measures to have the cabinet approval for importation of 182,548 Metric tons of rice with

the cost of Rs. 11,648,592, 399 and for taking measures to make use of state finances

without proper approval .

(f) as this report was formulated within the powers, resources and time that the Auditor

General possesses , I did not investigate whether illegal or criminal activities, that is out


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of the purview of Auditor General , have been performed . Therefore it is concluded that if

it is felt that such an investigation is required it is appropriate to have the assistance of

specialized institutions , concerned .

The committee observed that the officers responsible were not concerned about maintaining

fiscal discipline and had seriously violated financial regulations of the government in the rice

importation process.

The committee also noted that not submitting correct information and presenting false

information by officers responsible when submitting cabinet memoranda is a wrongful act.

It was also revealed that the sub-committee on cost of living which takes important policy

decisions on behalf of the country was presented with incorrect information.

The public institutions do a major harm to themselves as well as to the people and the country

as a whole by acting imprudently and without inquiring the facts properly when taking

important policy decisions. It was disclosed at the hearing of evidence and in the audit that the

loss suffered by the government by importing unwanted massive stocks of rice and by selling

them as animal food subsequently, was Rs.15 billion and it was increasing day by day due to

interests paid for loans, rents for warehouses. However these amounts cannot be accurate and

they can be much higher.

Improper management and lack of coordination between public institutions seen in this process

are also unfortunate. The rice in warehouses being declared as unsuitable for human

consumption by the Public Health Inspectors although the experts have confirmed it is in good

condition, 5 to 6 months being taken to obtain rice samples from the sealed warehouses are

totally unacceptable. Furthermore it is the observation of the committee that even after

following a court procedure the relevant institutions failing to release the rice stocks for sale

after informing the courts about the true and correct situation is a result of the inefficient

management.

The committee also notes that a period of 4 to 10 months being taken to release 42,992 MT out

of 90,901 MT of rice which is 47.3 percent, imported through letter of credit numbered

BTD – M 63519 and BTD-M 63537, and out of the released rice, 809 containers which contains

21,034 MT being kept at private container terminals, out of them 727 containers were taken to

warehouses maintained by the SATHOSA after a period of 2 to 10 months and keeping the

balance 820 containers further in the private container terminal as at 14th October 2016 are

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The Committee will conduct further special investigations regarding all these matters. Given

the gravity and sensitivity of the matters revealed at this inquiry, the committee decided to

submit the audit reports in relation to this matter along with the witness notes to Parliament

immediately.

The Committee observers that a sum of Rs. 8.75 Billion remaining to be paid as the loan and

interest by the end of December 2016 out of the loan of Rs.14.09 billion that had been obtained

from state banks for importing rice was owing to sheer inefficient management of the relevant

government institutions.

The Committee strongly emphasizes the need to conduct a deep and detailed investigation on

this transaction which has caused a grave financial loss to the government. The Committee on

Public enterprises will make arrangements to conduct further investigations in regard to this

matter.

Therefore, the report of the Committee along with the interim recommendations mentioned

below is presented to Parliament without further delay.

Recommendations made by the Committee

As Lanka Sathosa Ltd. is a key contributor to the economy of the country and as it is a

public company with 97.44 of the shares held by the Secretary to the Treasury, the Secretary to

the Treasury should engage in more close and proper monitoring of its affairs and provide

guidance.

Action should be taken to reach decisions regarding the importation of rice, subsequent

to obtaining correct data and information on domestic rice requirement, paddy production and

the total level of stocks from the relevant institutions.

Officers responsible should take measures to submit to the Cabinet of Ministers through

Cabinet Memoranda all data and information required by the Cabinet to take correct decisions.

Officials participating in the Subcommittee on the Cost of Living too should take action

to submit correct data and information to the Cabinet of Ministers.

As Lanka Sathosa Ltd. is a public company and as an approved procurement process is

lacking, the directives in the Public Procurement Guidelines and Manuals should be followed

and action should be taken for annual registration of qualified suppliers for emergency

procurement.


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Procurement process should be implemented to ensure economy, efficiency and

productivity and action needs to be taken to provide maximum benefits to the consumers.

A proper computer data base should be established within the institution and all the

outlets and warehouses should be connected to the network. A regular method for control of

stocks should also be implemented.

Arrangements should be made to review the cadre, recruit qualified and experienced

personnel to fill the vacancies in the approved cadre and to retain them in the institution and

they should be provided lists of duties for clear distribution of work and assignment of

responsibilities.

The Internal Audit Unit should be strengthened for the conduct of proper internal

auditing.

Action should be taken to arrange regular and healthy storage facilities required for

storing rice and other consumer goods in compliance with stock control methods applicable to

consumer goods and annual physical verification of warehouses should be done.

Conclusions of the Committee

Though approval has been received to import 50,000 MT of rice in batches of 5000 MT

as pointed out by the Auditor General, instituting legal action against official who took

measures to import 50,000 MT of rice worth Rs 2.8 billion at once in violation of the said

approval.

Penalizing officers who granted permission/ took action to import 182,548 MT of rice

valued at Rs. 11.6 billion without approval/ proper approval of the Cabinet of Ministers outside

the procurement process.

The Committee resolves that the loss of Rs 15.6 billion disclosed in report of the Auditor

General should be recovered from the individuals and institutions responsible for such loss.

It is recommended that a proper mechanism be formulated for collecting accurate

information on the rice need of the country, paddy production and existing stock situations.


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ඇමුණුම 2 .1

විගණකාධිපති දෙපාර්තදේන්තුව

සී/ස ලංකා සදතොස විසින් 2014 සහ 2015 වර්ෂවලදි සිදු කරන ලෙ

සහල් ආනයන ක්රියාවය ය සේ්න්ෙදයන් 2016 සැප්තැේ්ර් 20 දින පැවති

පාර්ය දේන්තුදේ දපොදු වයාපාර ළිබඳ්ක කාරක සවාදේ ්ල්ම ම පදිදි

විගණකාධිපති විසින් ්දිදිපත් කරනු ල්න

විද ේෂ විගණන වාර්තාව

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පටුන

පදිච්දේෙය ළිටුව

1. උක්ත වාර්තාව නිකුත් කිරීමේ පසුබිම සහ වාර්තාමේ ස්වභාවය ………………………….. 7

2. මමම වාර්තාව පිළිමයල කිරීමේදී අනුගමනය කල පියවරයන්

2.1 මේඛන මපොත්පත් හා වාර්තා පරීක්ෂා කිරීම …………………………………………

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4.1 සමාගම සංසථ්ාපනය කිරීම …………………………………………………………

4.2 සමාගමේ අරමුණු ………………………………………………………………...

4.3 අධ්යක්ෂක ම්ඩලලය සංුතියය ………………………………………………………

4.4 කාර්යය ම්ඩලල මතොරතුරු …………………………………………………………

4.5 ලංකාමේ වී නිෂ්පාදනය, මේශීය හා ආනයනික සහේ සැපුතම සහ සහේ පරිමභෝජනය ..

4.6 2012 සිට 2015 වර්ෂය දක්වා මපෞේගලික අංශය සහ රාජය අංශය විසින් සිදුකල සහේ

ආනයනය පිළිබඳ මතොරතුරු ………………………………………………………...

4.7 ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනය විසින් සහේ මිලදී මගන ියබූ ආකාරය ……………………...

4.8 ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ මාසික ආනයනික සහේ අමලවිය ………………………...

4.9 ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනය සතුව පැවිය සහේ මතොග ප්රමායයන් ………………………

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කල පරීක්ෂාව …………………………………………………………………………..

5.1 මේශීය මවළඳමපොමළන් ආනයනික සහේ මම.මටො. 18,134 ක් මිලට ගැනීම ………….

5.2 පසු මගවුේ ක්රමය Document Against Payment) යටමත් සහේ මම.මටො. 29,262 ක්

ආනයනය කිරීම ……………………………………………………………………

5.3 2014 ජූලි 31 දිනැිය අංක 14/0940/540/005 දරන අමාතය ම්ඩලල අනුමැියය මත

සහේ මම.මටො. 50,000 ක් ආනයනය ………………………………………………..

5.4 අංක 42002140026193 දරන යයවර ලිපිය මඟින් නාඩු සහේ මම.මටො. 1,040 ක්

ආනයනය කිරීම. ……………………………………………………………….......

අංක BTD – M63519 සහ අංක BTD – M63537 දරන යයවර ලිපි මඟින් සහේ

මම.මටො. 90,901ක් ආනයනය කර ියබීම …………………………………………

5.5 අංක 42002140033274 සහ 42002140033283 දරන යයවර ලිපි මඟින් සහේ මම.මටො.

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25,000 ක් ආනයනය කිරීම ………………………………………………...………

6. ආනයනික සහේ ඉියරි මතොගය ………………………………………………...………

7. ආනයනික සහේ සඳහා දරන ලද මුළු පිරිවැය ……………………………………………

8. ආනයනික සහේ අමලවිමයන් ලැබූ මුළු ආදායම ………………………………...………

9. සහේ ආනයනය කිරීම නිසා රු.15,157,031,018 ක අලාභයක් ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනයට/

රජයට සිදු වී ියබීම ……………………………………………………………………...

10. සහේ ආනයනය සඳහා අරමුදේ සපයා ගැනීම …………………………………………...

11. ආනයනික සහේ සඳහා අියමර්ක ගබලා පහසුකේ ලබා ගැනීමට සිදු වීම …………………

12. මපොදු නීරීක්ෂය ………………………………………………………………………...

13. පේධ්ිය හා පාලන ……………………………………………………………………….

14. නිර්මේශ ……………………………………………………………………………….

15. නිගමන ………………………………………………………………………………...

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සීමාසහිත ලංකා සදතොස (ලංකා සදතොස) විසින් 2014 සහ 2015 වර්ෂවල සහල් ආනයනය

කිරීේ ළිබඳ්කව ්දිදිපත් කරනු ල්න විද ේෂ විගණන වාර්තාව

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උක්ත වාර්තාව නිකුත් කිරීදේ පසුබිම සහ වාර්තාදේ ස්වවාවය

සමූපකාර මතොග මවළඳ සංස්ථාව සහ ලංකා සමතොස ආයතන සේබන්ධ්මයන් 2016 සැප්තැේබර් 20 දින

පැය 1430 ට පැවිය මපොදු වයාපාර පිළිබඳ කාරක සභා ස්ස්වීමේදී ලංකා සමතොස විසින් 2014 සහ 2015

වර්ෂවල ආනයනය කළ සහේ පිළිබඳව පරීක්ෂා කර වාර්තාවක් කාරක සභාව මවත ඉදිරිපත් කරන මලස

විගයකාධිපිය මවත කරන ලද ඉේලීම පරිදි මමම වාර්තාව ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලැමේ. ඇමුණුම 01)

2. දමම වාර්තාව ළිබඳදයල කිරීදේදී අනුගමනය කළ විගණන ක්රමදේෙයන්

පහත සඳහන් ක්රමමේදයන් අනුගමනය කරන ලදී.

2.1 දල්ඛන, දපොත්පත් හා වාර්තා පරීක්ෂා කිරීම

අ) ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ ගබලා තුළ ඇිය සහේ සේබන්ධ්මයන් පරීක්ෂා කිරීම

සඳහා කර්මාන්ත හා වාණිජ කටුතතු අමාතයාංශමේ මේකේ විසින් 2015

ඔක්මතෝබර් 16 දින පත් කරන ලද පංච පුේගල කමිටු වාර්තාව;

ආ) ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ ආනයනික සහේ සේබන්ධ්මයන් පරීක්ෂා කිරීම සඳහා

ලංකා සමතොස සභාපිය විසින් 2015 ඔක්මතෝබර් 19 දින පත් කරන ලද කමිටු

වාර්තාව;

ඇ) ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද වාර්ෂික වාර්තාවල ඇතුළත් ශ්රී

ලංකාව තුළ වාර්ෂික වී සහ සහේ නිෂ්පාදනය පිළිබඳ දත්ත;

ඈ) කෘෂිකර්ම මදපාර්තමේන්තුමේ සමාජ ආර්ථික හා සැලසුේ මධ්යසථ්ානමයන්

ලබාගත් ශ්රී ලංකාමේ සහේ අවශයතාවය, වාර්ෂික නිෂ්පාදනය සහ සහේ ආනයන

පිළිබඳ දත්ත;

ඉ) කර්මාන්ත හා වාණිජ කටුතතු අමාතයාංශමයන් ලබාගත් මතොරතුරු;

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ඊ) මහා භා්ඩලාගාරමේ විවිධ් මදපාර්තමේන්තුවලින් ලබාගත් මතොරතුරු;

උ) ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමයන් ලබාගත් මතොරතුරු, දත්ත සහ සහේ ආනයනයට

අදාල ලිපිමගොනු;

ඌ) ආනයනික සහේ ගබලා මුද්රා තැබීම සේබන්ධ්මයන් මහජන මසෞඛය

පරීක්ෂකවරුන්මගන් ලබාගත් මතොරතුරු;

එ) ශ්රී ලංකා මර්වෙමවන් ලබාගත් 2012, 2013, 2014 සහ 2015 වර්ෂවල සහේ

ආනයනය කිරීම පිළිබඳ මතොරතුරු සහ දත්ත;

ඒ) වී අමලවි ම්ඩලලමයන් ලබාගත් මතොරතුරු;

ඔ) සමූපකාර සංවර්ධ්න මදපාර්තමේන්තුමවන් ලබාගත් මතොරතුරු;

ඕ) ආහාර මකොමසාරිස් මදපාර්තමේන්තුමවන් ලබාගත් ගබලා කුලී පිළිබඳ මතොරතුරු; ක) ලංකා බැංකුව සහ මහජන බැංකුමවන් ලබා ගත් යය පිළිබඳ මතොරතුරු.

2.2 දවනත් පරීක්ෂාවන්

අ) ආනයනික සහේ ගබලා කර ියබූ මීමතොටමුේල, මේයන්මගොල, මැකලේ සහ ඒකල

ගබලාවල සිදු කළ මභෞියක පරීක්ෂාව.

ආ) ACE බහාළුේ අංගනමේ කුලී පදනම මත රඳවා තබා ියබුණු බහාළුේ තුල අලංවෙ

සහේ පිළිබඳ මභෞියකව පරීක්ෂාව.

ඇ) ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ නිලධ්ාරින්මගන් සහ මහජන මසෞඛය පරීක්ෂක

නිලධ්ාරින්මගන් ලබා ගත් ලිඛිත ප්රකාශ.

3. විෂය පථය සීමාවීම

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මමම වාර්තාව ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමේදී මාමේ විෂය පථය මතු දැක්මවන සීමා කිරීේවලට යටත්ව ියබූ බව

අවධ්ාරයය කරනු ලැමේ.

(අ) ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජමේ ආ්ඩඩුක්රම වයවස්ථාමේ 19 වන

සංමශෝධ්නමයන් විගයකාධිපියවරයාට රාජය සමාගේ සේබන්ධ් විගයනය කිරීම සඳහා

බලතල ලැමබන මතක්, ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ සෘජු විගයනයක් සිදු කිරීමට මනොහැකි

වීම / අවස්ථාවක් මනොලැබීම.

ආ) 2014 වර්ෂමේ සිට සිදු වූ මමම විෂයයගත ක්රියාවලිය සහ ඒ පිළිබඳව පරීක්ෂයයක්

පැවැත්වීමේ කාර්යය විගයකාධිපිය මවත පැවරුණු දිනය අතර වර්ෂ 2 ක පමය කාල

පරතරයක් ියබීම.

ඇ) සහේ මතොග පරීක්ෂා කිරීම සඳහා පැවිය බාධ්ාවන්

i) ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනය විසින් සහේ මතොග පිළිබඳව මභෞියක මතොග

ආගයනයක් සිදු කර මනොියබීම.

ii) සහේ ගබලාවල විධිමත් මතොග මේඛන පවත්වාමගන මනොයාම.

(iii) මභෞියකව පරීක්ෂා කළ හැකි වන පරිදි / ගයනය කළ හැකි වන පරිදි ගබලාවල

පැවිය සහේ මතොග ගබලා කර මනොියබීම.

(iv) මීමතොටමුේල, මේයන්මගොල, මැකලේ සහ ඒකල ගබලා පරීක්ෂා කරන අවස්ථාව

වන විට පැවිය සහේ මතොගවලින් මබොමහොමයක් පරීක්ෂා කළ මනොහැකි පරිදි හානි

වී ියබීම.

v) එක් එක් ගබලාවල සහ ආයතනමේ පවියන මතොග පිළිබඳ මතොරතුරු ලබා ගත

හැකි වන පරිදි මේඛනගත / පරිගයකගත කරන ලද විධිමත් ක්රමමේදයක්

මනොියබීම.

ඈ) ඇමුණුේ 02 හි සඳහන් විගයනයට අවශය මතොරතුරු, කර්මාන්ත හා වාණිජ කටුතතු අමාතයාංශය සහ ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනය විසින් ලබා මනොදීම.

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ඉ) ඇමුණුේ 03 හි සඳහන් විගයනයට අවශය මතොරතුරු සැපයීමේදී, කර්මාන්ත හා වාණිජ කටුතතු අමාතයාංශමේ සහ ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ විශාල ප්රමාදයන් පැවීමම.

ඊ) සහේ ආනයන කටුතතු සිදු කර ියබුණු 2014 සහ 2015 වර්ෂවල ආයතනමේ මසේවමේ

නිුතක්තව සිටි ඉහළ කළමනාකරය මට්ටමේ සහ අමනකුත් කාර්ය ම්ඩලලමේ වැඩි

පිරිසක් දැනට ආයතනමයන් ඉවත්ව මගොස් ියබීම නිසා මතොරතුරු ලබා ගැනීමේදී සිදු වූ

අපහසුතාවය / ප්රමාදය / මනොහැකි වීම.

උ) ආයතනමේ ගිණුේ හා මතොරතුරු පවත්වාමගන යාමේ පේධ්ිය සහ ක්රමමේදයන්මේ විශාල

දුර්වලතා පැවීමම.

ඌ) ආනයනික සහේ සේබන්ධ්මයන් සිදු කරනු ලබන විමර්ශනයන් සඳහා පහත සඳහන්

ආයතන විසින් ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ මතොරතුරු, මේඛන සහ ලිපිමගොනු ස්මගන

මගොස් ියබීම සහ ඇතැේ ලිපිමගොනුවල සහ මේඛනවල ඡායා පිටපත් ආයතනය විසින් රඳවා

තබා මනොගැනීම.

(i) ජනාධිපිය පරීක්ෂය මකොමිෂන් සභාව (බරපතල වංචා, දූෂය, රාජය සේපත්,

වරප්රසාද, බලය හා අධිකාරය අනිසි මලස භාවිතා කිරීම සේබන්ධ්මයන් විමර්ශනය

කිරීම)

(ii) මූලය අපරාධ් පරීක්ෂය මකොට්ඨාශය

(iii) අේලස් මහෝ දූෂය මචෝදනා විමර්ශන මකොමිෂන් සභාව

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4. දපොදු කරුණු

4.1 සමාගම සංසථ්ාපනය කිරීම

ලංකා සමතොස සමාගම 1982 අංක 17 දරන සමාගේ පනත යටමත් 2005 ඔක්මතෝබර් 26

දින සංස්ථාපනය කර, 2007 අංක 07 දරන සමාගේ පනත යටමත් 2010 මාර්තු 19 දින

නැවත ලියාපදිංචි කර ියබුණි. එම සමාගමේ ප්රකාිත ප්රාේධ්නය රු.893,752,720 ක් වන

අතර, ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ සභාපියවරයා විසින් 2014 අමගෝස්තු 19 දිනැියව

සමාගේ මරජිස්ට්රාර්වරයා මවත ඉදිරිපත් කර ියබුණු මකොටස් නිකුතුව පිළිබඳ ආකෘිය 06

අනුව එම මකොටස් සංුතියය පහත පරිදි විය. ඇමුණුම 04)

මකොටස් හිමිකම

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ප්රමායය

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වටිනාකම

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රු.)

ප්රියශතය

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භා්ඩලාගාර මේකේ 87,095,381 870,953,810 97.44

සමූපකාර මතොග මවළඳ සංස්ථාව 2,279,884 22,798,840 2.55

අධ්යක්ෂ ම්ඩලලය 7 70 0.000001

4.2 සමාගදේ අරමුණු

සාංගමික වයවස්ථාවලිය අනුව සමාගමේ මූලික අරමුණු පහත සඳහන් පරිදි විය. ඇමුණුම

05)

(අ) සියලු වර්ගවල අතයාවශය ද්රවයයන් සහ අමනකුත් මවළද භා්ඩල පාරිමභෝගික

ජනතාව මවත විකිණීමේ, විකිණීමට අර්පයය, මබදා හැරීමේ කටුතතු සිදු කිරීම.

ආ) සමාගම සතු සිේලර මවළඳසේවලින් දැරියහැකි මිලකට පාරිමභෝගික ජනතාවට

මිළදී ගැනීම සඳහා අතයාවශය මවළඳ භා්ඩල පවියන බවට තහවුරු කිරීම.

ඇ) පාරිමභෝගික හා අමනකුත් ඕනෑම වර්ගයක ද්රවයයන් සේබන්ධ්මයන්

ආනයනකරුවන් හා අපනයනකරුවන් සහ මතොග හා සිේලර මවළඳුන් හා

ගනුමදනුකරුවන් මලස කටුතතු කිරීම ආරේභ කිරීම, පිහිටුවීම කළමනාකරයය

සහ පවත්වාමගන යාම, භා්ඩල ආනයනකරුවන් මලස එවැනි කටුතතු, අවශය

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අවස්ථාවලදී සමූපකාර මතොග මවළඳ සංස්ථාමවන් ස.මතො.ස) මිළදී ගැනීමට

මනොහැකි යැයි සිියය හැකි භා්ඩලවලට සීමා කළ ුතතු වන්මන්ය.

ඈ) කෘෂි නිෂ්පාදන, පාරිමභෝගික හා අමනකුත් සියලුම වර්ගවල භා්ඩල මිළදී

ගන්නන්, එකතු කරන්නන්, සැකසුේකරුවන්, ගබලාකරුවන්, අසුරන්නන්,

මබදාහරින්නන්, විකුණුේකරුවන් හා සපයන්නන් සේබන්ධ් කටුතතු සිදු කිරීම.

භා්ඩල මිළදී ගන්නන් හා එකතු කරන්නන් මලස එවැනි කටුතතු, අදාළ

අවස්ථාවලදී සමූපකාර මතොග මවළඳ සංස්ථාව ස.මතො.ස) විසින් අදාල කාල

වකවානුමේදී මිලදී මනොගන්නා මහෝ එකතු කර මනොගන්නා මහෝ භා්ඩලවලට

සීමා කළ ුතතු වන්මන්ය.

ඉ) පූර්ය මිළදී ගැනීම, බදු මහෝ කුලියට ගැනීමකින් ගබලා හා මවළඳ පහසුකේ

පිහිටුවීම සහ වෙදේ, මවළඳ සහ ගබලා ඉලකල සහ පහසුකේ විකිණීම, බදුදීම,

කුලියට දීම හා අමලවිය.

ඊ) වයාපාර හා අමනකුත් මපෞේගලික වයවසායකයන් මවත පුහුණු හා නුපුහුණු ශ්රමය

සහ අමනකුත් මානව සේපත් මසේවා මකොන්ත්රාත් මගින් සැපයීම.

උ) පාරිමභෝගික ජනතාව මවත ඕනෑම ආකාරයක මසේවා සැපයීම.

ඌ) අතයවශය භා්ඩලවල සිේලර මවළඳාේ කටුතතු සිදු කිරීම හැරුණු විට සමාගම

විසින් පාරිමභෝගික ජනතාව මවත මසේවය සැපයීමේ මූලික අරමුමයන් ුතතුව මමහි

සඳහන් වයාපාර කටුතතුවල නියැලීම මගින් සමාගමේ ප්රාමයෝගික, වයාපාර හා

වාණිජ ියරසාරභාවය තහවුරු කිරීම.

*සාංගමික වයවස්ථාවලිමේ සිංහල පිටපතක් විගයනයට ලබා මනොදීම නිසා ඉංග්රීසි පිටපමත්

පරිවර්තනයක් මමහි දක්වා ඇත.)

4.3 අෙයක්ෂ මණ්ඩල සංයුතිය

සමාගමේ සාංගමික වයවස්ථාවලිය අනුව අධ්යක්ෂ ම්ඩලලය සාමාජිකයින් 11

මදමනකුමගන් සමන්විත විය ුතතු වුවද, වර්තමාන අධ්යක්ෂ ම්ඩලලයට සාමාජිකයින් 07

මදමනකු පමයක් පත් කර ියබුණි. අධ්යක්ෂ ම්ඩලලමේ නිල බලමයන් පත්වන නිතය

සාමාජිකයකු වන සමූපකාර සංවර්ධ්න මකොමසාරිස්වරයා අධ්යක්ෂ ම්ඩලලමයන් 2015

මනොවැේබර් 11 වැනි දින ඉවත්වී ඇිය අතර, අදාල අමාතයවරයා විසින් නේ කරනු ලබන

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සාමාජිකයන් 03 මදමනකු පත් කර මනොියබුණි. 2006 සිට මේ දක්වා සිටි අධ්යක්ෂ

ම්ඩලලමේ මතොරතුරු පහත දැක්මේ.

නම

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අධ්යක්ෂ ම්ඩලල

තනතුර

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පත් වූ දිනය

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ඉවත් වූ දිනය

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1. මක්.එන්.ආර්.ප්රනාන්දු මයා අධ්යක්ෂ / සභාපිය 2006.12.01 2015.01.21

2. ක්රිෂාන්ත කපුවත්ත මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2010.05.31 2015.02.06

3. ඩී.ජීවනාදන් මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2010.06.30 2015.11.11

4. චමිල ජයාන් මුයසිංහ මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2010.07.01 2015.01.07

5. එන්.එේ.ඩී.නවරත්න මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2010.07.19 2015.05.25

6. ඩී.අජිත් පී. අමේමසේකර මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2011.12.21 2015.01.20

7. ලේලිේ.එච්.කරුයාරත්න මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2012.01.16 2014.06.30

8. ඩී.ඩී.උපුේ ශාන්ත ද අේවිස් මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2014.07.01 2015.07.15

9. කාසිමිර් කිරාන් අතපත්තු මයා අධ්යක්ෂ / සභාපිය 2015.01.28 2015.08.03

10. එස්.මසේනාරත්න මිය අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.02.27 2015.08.03

11. ඒ.යූ.එේ.යාසීර් මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.02.27 වර්තමාන සාමාජික

12. එේ.එච්.එේ.හලාඩ් මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.03.24 2016.09.10

13. ආචාර්ය ආර්.එේ.මක්.රත්නායක මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.05.25 2015.11.16

14. එේ.එච්.එේ.ෂෆ්රාස් මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.06.08 වර්තමාන සාමාජික

15. සමීර ටී. ජයවර්ධ්න මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.06.11 2015.07.28

16. ජී.ඒ.අජිත් ප්රියන්ත මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.06.11 2015.07.28

17. ලේලිේ.ඒ.ධ්ේමික රාජපක්ෂ මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.07.15 2015.10.08

18. මසේන ශ්රීනාත් මීයනවල මයා අධ්යක්ෂ / වැල බලන

සභාපිය

2015.08.03 2015.09.15

19. එේ.රිසව්ාන් හමීේ මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.10.13 වර්තමාන සාමාජික

20. ආචාර්ය මරොහාන්ත අතුමකෝරළ මයා අධ්යක්ෂ / සභාපිය 2015.11.20 වර්තමාන සභාපිය

21 ආර්.රුෂාන්දන් මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.12.01 වර්තමාන සාමාජික

22. ඒ.පී.කුරුේබලපිටිය මයා අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.12.01 වර්තමාන සාමාජික

23. ආර්.ඒ.ඉන්දිකා රයතුංග මිය අධ්යක්ෂ 2015.12.29 වර්තමාන සාමාජික

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4.4 කාර්ය මණ්ඩල දතොරතුරු

2016 මැයි 31 දිනට සමාගමේ කාර්ය ම්ඩලල මතොරතුරු පහත දැක්මේ.

විස්තරය

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අනුමත කාර්ය

ම්ඩලලය

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ඉහළ කළමනාකරය මට්ටම 14 10 4 -

මධ්යම කළමනාකරය මට්ටම 23 11 12 -

කණිෂ්ඨ කළමනාකරය මට්ටම 31 24 7 -

කළමනාකරය සහකාර 578 438 140 -

ප්රාථමික මට්ටම 2,429

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4.5 ලංකාදේ වී නිෂ්පාෙනය, දේශීය හා ආනයනික සහල් සැපයුම සහ සහල් පදිදවෝජනය

මම. මටො. දහස්)

වර්ෂය

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සහේ

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සහේ

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සහේ

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2015 2,877 1,942 4,819 3,369 286 3,655 2,438

2014 2,236 1,145 3,381 2,364 600 2,964 2,404

2013 2,846 1,774 4,620 3,231 23 3,254 2,382

2012 2,717 1,129 3,846 2,895 36 2,931 2,364

2011 1,996 1,898 3,894 2,723 28 2,751 2,427

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* මේශීය සහේ නිෂ්පාදනය වී මම.මටො. 01 කට සහේ මම.මටො. 0.7 ක් මලස ගයනය

කර ඇත.

දත්ත මූලාශ්රය ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුමේ 2014 සහ 2015 වාර්ෂික වාර්තාවල දත්ත සහ

කෘෂිකර්ම මදපාර්තමේන්තුමේ සමාජ ආර්ථික හා සැළසුේ මධ්යස්ථානමේ අධ්යක්ෂමේ

2016 මනොවැේබර් 17 දිනැිය අංක SEPC/STAT/AMD/IT(DOA) දරන ලිපිමයන්

ලබාගත් මතොරතුරු)

4.6 2012 සිට 2015 වර්ෂය ෙක්වා දපෞේගය ක අං ය සහ රාජය අං ය විසින් සිදුකල සහල්

ආනයනය ළිබඳ්ක දතොරතුරු

මම. මටො.)

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රාජය අංශය

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එකතුව

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ලංකා සමතොස

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ආර්ථික

සංවර්ධ්න

අමාතයංශය

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මවනත්

රාජය

ආයතන

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2015 118,856 167,265 - 553 286,674

2014 504,525 90,294 1,150 5,007 600,976

2013 21,896 - 1,093 60 23,049

2012 26,508 - 9,732 - 36,240

එකතුව

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671,785

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257,559

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11,975

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5,620

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946,939

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දත්ත මූලාශ්රය ශ්රී ලංකා මර්වෙමේ දත්ත පේධ්ියය)

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4.7 ලංකා සදතොස ආයතනය විසින් සහල් මිලදීදගන තිබූ ආකාරය

ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනය විසින් 2014 සහ 2015 වර්ෂවලදී පහත දැක්මවන පරිදි සහේ

මිලදී මගන ියබුණි.

මිලදී ගත් ආකාරය

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ප්රමායය

මම.මටො.)

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මි.ර.ගැ. CIF)

වටිනාකම

රු.)

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අ) මේශීය නිෂ්පාදිත සහේ මිලදී ගැනීම 46,668 2,688,941,911

ආ) ආනයනික සහේ මේශීය මවළඳපමලන් මිලදී

ගැනීම

18,134 1,199,495,609

ඇ) පසු මගවීේ ක්රමය යටමත් සෘජුවම විමේශීය

මවළඳපමලන් සහේ මිලදී ගැනීම

29,262 1,851,055,933

ඈ) ලංකා සමතොස විසින් යයවර ලිපියක් මගින්

සෘජුවම විමේශීය මවළඳපමලන් මිලදී ගැනීම

1,040 62,634,808

ඉ) අමාතය ම්ඩලල අනුමැියය මත විමේශීය

මවළඳමපොමලන් මිලදී ගැනීම

75,002 4,347,942,373

ඊ) මහා භා්ඩලාගාරමේ එකඟතාවය මත විමේශීය

මවළඳපමලන් සහේ මිලදී ගැනීම

152,255 9,734,901,658

එකතුව

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322,361

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19,884,972,292

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4.8 ලංකා සදතොස ආයතනදේ මාසික ආනයනික සහල් අදලවිය

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පහත සඳහන් මහේතු නිසා මාසික සහේ අමලවිය පිළිබඳ මතොරතුරු ලබා දිය මනොහැකි බව

ලංකා සමතොස ආයතනමේ සභාපියවරයා විසින් 2016 මනොවැේබර් 28 දිනැිය අංක රහිත

ලිපිමයන් දන්වා එවා ියබුණි. ඇමුණුම 06)

අ) ලංකා සමතොස අමලවිසේ 321 ක ප්රමායයක් දිවයින පුරා ස්ථාපිත කර ියබුයද,

ඉන් අමලවිසේ 220 ක්ම පරිගයක ජාලගත කර මනොියබීම. ආ) පරිගයක ජාලගත කර මනොමැිය අමලවිසැේ 220 හි විකුණුේ මතොරතුරු ප්රධ්ාන

පරිගයක පේධ්ියයට ඇතුළත් කිරීමේදී ප්රධ්ාන විකුණුේ කා්ඩල 05 ක් යටමත් වර්ග

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