3. The general objects for which the Corporation is established are hereby declared to be"
| (a) to construct and maintain buildings required for the Nugawela Malagammana Rajamaha Viharaya ; |
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| (b) to promote the religious education of the Buddhist laity; |
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| (c) to provide the resident bhikkus of the Nugawela Malagammana Rajamaha Viharaya, with educational facilities and to help them in meeting their daily needs ; |
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| (d) to promote cultural activities including ancient forms of art in the villages and the areas in and around the Rajamaha Viharaya ; |
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| (e) to preserve ancient buildings and paintings, in collaboration with the Archaeological Department and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs; |
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| (f) to organize the annual perahera of the Rajamaha Viharaya in collaboration with the four Dewalayas ; |
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| (g) to establish, equip and maintain a pre-school and a library ; |
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| (h) to establish and maintain a department for oriental languages ; |
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| (i) to establish and maintain a department for international languages such as English and French ; |
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| (j) to engage in the dissemination of the Dhamma, internationally: |
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| (k) to preserve and disseminate the Buddhist Philosophy and the Buddhist Way of life ; |
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| (l) to establish friendly relations with other Buddhist organizations in Sri Lanka and abroad ; |
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| (m) to conduct vocational training courses for youth in Sri Lanka ; |
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| (n) to train students in small industries and to help them, financially or otherwise, to establish themselves as useful citizens ; |
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| (o) to promote education by establishing and maintaining privenas, schools and other educational institutions and by granting scholarships; |
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| (p) to provide medical aid, food and housing to the poor, the destitute and the sick; |
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| (q) to establish and maintain orphanages and homes for the aged and to establish social welfare centres; |
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| (r) to provide welfare facilities for the deaf, dumb and the blind and for disabled persons and to establish welfare homes ; |
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| (s) to assist financially or by granting scholarships or, otherwise, voluntary workers and others who are engaged in the attainment of the objects of the Corporation; |
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| (t) to establish and maintain libraries, to subscribe for and issue books, journals, souvenirs and periodicals and to provide such other services as may be deemed desirable for attaining the objects of the Corporation ; |
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| (u) to promote, arrange, organize and hold, exhibitions, lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops, classes, debates, conferences, tours, excursions or any other acts in the furtherance of the objects of the Corporation; |
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| (v) to co-operate and associate with other associations, societies or organizations having objects similar to those of the Corporation; |
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| (w) to engage with a view to imparting technical expertise to the people, in any industry, vocation or import and export business and to promote and to carry on agricultural find industrial enterprises, to aid and assist any person to carry on such enterprises, to maintain training programmes in respect of such enterprises and to organize services and propaganda work ; |
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| (x) to organize programmes for the study of Ayurvedic end indigenous medicine and to conduct courses of study leading to the award of diplomas and other educational courses; |
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| (y) to act as an affiliated institution or a representative of any local or foreign technical or professional training institute carrying on educational activities ; and |
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| (z) to do all such other acts and things as are necessary, conducive or incidental to, the attainment of all or 'any of the objects of the Corporation. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts