Green Movement Blog

The Green Movement of Sri Lanka, yesterday complained to the Court of Appeal that the Secretary to the Ministry of Environment and Energy had violated the Forest Act by issuing a letter dated February 14, 2014 to release 2,500 acres of forest land in Mannar, Mullathivu and Vavuniya areas to resettle Muslim villagers.

In the letter written to the District Secretary of Mannar, the petitioner has said that the environmental balance is eroded when forests are destroyed and further those forest lands were of archaeological value.

The petitioner has requested the Court to issue a writ to quash the letter written by the Ministry Secretary, which the petitioner says is bad in law.

Among the respondent are the secretary to the Ministry of Environment and Renewable Energy, B. M. U. D. Basnayake, the Forest Conservator Anura Sathurusinghe, Director General of the Department of Archaeology, Dr. Senarath Dissanayake and the Commissioner of Lands R. P. R. Rupasinghe.

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=102786

Daily Update - 06 May 2014 (24 items)

Daily Update - 06 May 2014 (24 items) - http://srilankangreens.blogspot.com

Covered: Divaina, Dinamina, The Island and Daily News (online versions only)

(Note: Some of the URLs given below may work only during the date of publication)

Note: Dinamina was not available at the time of this compilation

Two Elephants killed at Punani Rail accident (1)

වල් අලි දෙදෙනෙක්‌ පුනානි හිදී මීනගයාට බිලි

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news21.html

Forest encroachment issue - Case filed (1)

Alienation of forest land: Green Movement takes ministry secy to court

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=102786

Fisheries talks (1)

Sri Lanka, India fishermen talks on May 12

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/sri-lanka-india-fishermen-talks-may-12

Consumer Affairs authority fines (1)

පරිභෝගික අධිකාරියට මාස 3 ට කෝටි 2 ක දඩ ආදායමක්‌

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news19.html

Hospital development (1)

ජාතික රෝහලේ බාහිර රෝගී අංශයට චීන ආධාරයෙන් මහල් 10 ක නව ගොඩනැඟිල්ලක්‌

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news18.html

Health staff shortage (1)

කළුතොට දිසා රෝහලේ බෙහෙත් දෙන්නේ උපස්‌ථායකයෙක්‌ - කැමති නම් බෙහෙත් ගන්නලු

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/provin03.html

New army hospital (2)

President opens country’s largest military hospital

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/president-opens-country-s-largest-military-hospital

'New hospital is country's best gift to its servicemen'

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/new-hospital-countrys-best-gift-its-servicemen

Health staff issue - Nurses’ strike (5)

Playing with patients' lives unacceptable

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/playing-patients-lives-unacceptable

'නර්ස්‌' ලෙඩේ සුවවේ - නමුත් කුරුණෑගල හෙදියෝ වර්ජන

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news01.html

GNOA suspends strike for one week

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=102784

වර්ජනය අත්හළ නර්ස්‌ලා තර්ජන මැද වැඩට එති - ආරක්‍ෂාවට පොලිස්‌ මුර

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news07.html

වින්නඹු අම්මලා සමාජයට විහිළු සපයනවා - සංඝ ආඥව ගැන මුරුත්තෙට්‌ටුවේ හිමි කියති

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news17.html

Health staff issues (1)

අද සිට දින 3ක්‌ පරිපූරක වෛද්‍ය වෘත්තික වර්ජන

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news06.html

Grade 1 child issues (1)

බස්‌නාහිර පළමු ශේ්‍රණියේ පුරප්පාඩු 400 තාමත් හිස්‌

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news10.html

Weather update (4)

අදත් මහ වැසි

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news05.html

වැසි සුළං අකුණු නායයැම් නිසා මරණ 3යි

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news02.html

ප්‍රධාන ජලාශවල ජල මට්‌ටම ඉහළට

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news08.html

Rains, heavy gusts forecast

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/rains-heavy-gusts-forecast

Loans to obtain electricity connections (1)

Loans for low income householders to obtain electricity connections - ADB powers power scheme

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/adb-powers-power-scheme

Bus transport issue (1)

අනුරපුර පෞද්ගලික බස්‌ වර්ජනයක්‌

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news11.html

Tourism income (1)

සංචාරක ආදායම 37.9 කින් ඉහළට

http://www.divaina.com/2014/05/06/news23.html

Road development at low cost (1)

Minister prevents contractor from making a big killing

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/minister-prevents-contractor-making-big-killing

Casino issue (1)

Mayor chides UNP parliamentarians who speak without knowing facts

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=102779