Abolish The Pradesiya Sabhas Not The Provincial Councils
R.M.B. Senanayake
Everybody talks of a “Grama Rajya” as a great and good thing. It is perhaps one proposal where everybody will agree is necessary. But they do not know how to proceed to establish one. The Grama Rajya concept requires the re-establishment of the old Village Committee which was based on the traditional village. Unfortunately the village is no longer the unit of administration at the level of the village. It was abolished in the 1980s by the UNP Government and replaced with Pradeshiya Sabhas by an Act of Parliament in 1987 as part of the reforms under the 13th Amendment under which Provincial Councils were established.