President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said that the nature or extent of the challenges involved in fulfilling the promises made to the people is not important.
“As soon as I was elected in November, by December, we had a big challenge; this corona epidemic. Today we have reopened the country. There were times in which we were pressured to lockdown the country. Even in those lockdown periods, we worked to provide people with essential food items, to take deliver the medicine they needed, and to provide relief. I think a lot of people don’t remember this work that happened in the last two years, and some people don’t even know it. The biggest challenge as a leader at the time was how we would deal with this. I think we were able to deal with it successfully.
When changes are made, there could be great challenges. There are similar challenges in advancing this renewable energy. It is in the midst of those challenges that I am trying to take this forward. The CEB says that it is difficult to balance the grid. So, as a government, we have come to realize that this is an important thing to do. We have presented a project to generate electricity from solar energy using those roofs in government institutions, especially in the camps of the three forces. If we can generate this energy during the day in the same houses, we can control it a lot ”
The President said this while inaugurating the first round of discussions at a series of seminars with professionals in various fields at the President’s House on the 11th.
