3. The general objects for which the Corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be"
| (a) to formulate and implement, schemes to promote educational, health and social welfare activities ; |
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| (b) to grant scholarships, bursaries. prizes, donations, financial aid and assistance in other forms for the education of poor children ; |
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| (c) to promote welfare activities for the benefit of children, women and orphans. |
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| (d) to promote mutual understanding and co-operation among people, irrespective of race and religion; |
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| (e) to establish and maintain projects for the protection, management and conservation of the environment: |
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| (f) to establish and maintain libraries, to subscribe for and issue books, journals, souvenirs and periodicals; |
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| (g) to create an awareness unions: youth, of the cultural values of Sri Lanka; |
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| (h) to afford children in indigent circumstances an opportunity to prepare for. to enter upon or to he engaged in. a trade, occupation or service and to provide them with education, training and other facilities; |
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| (i) to collaborate with any other institution, organization, whether foreign or local. having objects similar to those of the Corporation; |
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| (j) to promote physical training and sports activities; |
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| (k) to organize and conduct, conferences, workshops. group studies and lectures in furtherance of the objects of the Corporation; |
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| (l) to strive towards the economic, social and cultural upliftment of the residents ; and |
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| (m) to do such other things as may be necessary for. condusive or incidental to the attainment of all or any of the aforesaid objects. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts