First Draft Report of Expert Committee on Sustainable Vision presented to President

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The First Draft Report of the Presidential Expert Committee on Sustainable Sri Lanka 2030 Vision, which was appointed to outline the Government’s strategies for achieving the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, was presented to President Maithripala Sirisena by Prof. Mohan Munasinghe at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday.

The President appointed this special committee last January to prepare the national policy on the drive of Sri Lanka to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and Prof. Mohan Munasinghe is the Chairman of that committee.

The draft has comprehensive details of goals that Sri Lanka should achieve by 2030, focusing on the economic, social and environmental sectors under selected spheres of agriculture, transportation, energy, health, education, water, oceans and fisheries, urban and physical planning, and there were detailed discussions about the implementation of those things in the future. This is the first time that such a sustainable development vision is being introduced in Sri Lanka and it will be available next January as a National Sustainable Dialogue to review public opinion on this topic.

Accordingly, there will be extensive consultations with the public covering all the districts of Sri Lanka, from next January to May and through this initiative it is expected to create a broad dialogue regarding what should be the future sustainable development vision of Sri Lanka, in all sectors, including the public, politicians and academics.

The future amendments of the report will be made according to those views and proposals.

Secretary to the President Austin Fernando, General Secretary of the National Economic Council Prof. Lalith Samarakoon, Coordinating Secretary of the President Attorney-at-Law Shiral Lakthilake and others were present at the occasion.

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