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3. General objects of the Corporation

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

The general objects for which the Corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be—

(a)

to donate modern hospital equipments to hospitals;

(b)

to encourage and assist students faced with financial difficulties in pursuing higher education;

(c)

to assist students of low income groups or students who have lost one or both parents, in pursuing higher education;

(d)

to provide relief to the poor and destitute who require heart surgery, transplantation of kidney and cancer surgery and to provide assistance for treatments;

(e)

to establish and maintain orphanages and homes for the aged and to establish social welfare centers in accordance with such written laws as are for the time being in force;

(f)

to provide welfare facilities for the deaf, dumb and the blind and disabled persons and to establish welfare homes in accordance with such written laws as are for the time being in force;

(g)

to provide wheelchairs, crutches and spectacles for the poor and destitute;

(h)

to assist low income groups in the construction or completion of houses;

(i)

to assist in the development of agriculture in rural areas by providing agricultural machinery, tractors, hand tractors, lands and vehicles;

(j)

to print, publish and distribute books, journals, leaflets, newspapers and magazines and to establish and maintain libraries;

(k)

to promote, organize and maintain exhibitions, discussions, workshops, debates and tours which the Corporation may consider desirable for the promotion and achievement of its objects;

(l)

to collaborate and work with other societies, or organizations, having similar objects;

(m)

to reduce and eliminate suicidal tendencies by means of community projects and education.

(2)

In the implementaiton of the objects specified in subsection (1) the Governing Council shall ensure to the greatest extent possible that such implementation shall be carried out without any distinction based on race, religion, language, caste, sex, political opinion or place of birth.