The Opposition has launched a website, oversight.lk, to scrutinise the government’s financial performance — timed to go live the day before the President delivers the 2027 Budget speech.
The platform is aimed at keeping citizens informed about how the government has performed against its two previous budgets, as well as the one to be presented on Thursday, the Daily Mirror reported under the byline of Yohan Perera.
What is on the site
According to the filing, oversight.lk carries four things:
- Progress trackers for past budgets
- Ministry-by-ministry analyses
- Audit query reports concerning state institutions
- Analytical data breaking down government revenue sources and expenditure
The timing
The launch lands roughly 24 hours before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake presents the 2027 Budget, which this desk reported is due in Parliament on Thursday along with the debate timetable that follows it.
It also follows a week in which the Opposition has pressed the government on fiscal ground: Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa challenged the Treasury over the relief the budget will carry on Wednesday, and the Committee on Public Finance has been questioning banks over their lending priorities.
Budget-promise tracking is not new ground in Sri Lanka. Verité Research’s long-running Budget Promises assessment — whose 2025 findings this desk reported, showing nearly 40% of proposals falling short of substantial implementation — has occupied the same territory from outside politics for years. An opposition-run tracker is a different proposition: the same method, with a party’s interest in the result.
Not reported
The filing does not say who launched the site — no party, MP or official is named as being behind it, and no one is quoted. It does not say whether it is a project of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, of the Opposition Leader’s office, or of a wider grouping, nor who funds or maintains it.
It does not say which two previous budgets are covered — presumably 2025 and 2026, but the filing does not state it. It gives no launch event, no date from which the data runs, no methodology for how “progress” on a promise is judged, and no indication whether the underlying data will be published in a reusable form.
Nor does it say whether the site was live at the time of filing.
A note on sourcing. Only the Daily Mirror among the verified newsrooms had filed on this at the time of writing; a search returned an additional report on Newswire.lk, which is an aggregator and does not count toward this article’s credibility rating. That search also surfaced a claim that the site was launched on the Opposition Leader’s instructions — this desk could not confirm it against any fetched newsroom report, and it is therefore not stated as fact above.
This article describes the site only as the Daily Mirror’s filing describes it. This desk has not independently visited oversight.lk or verified its contents, and nothing here should be read as an assessment of the site’s accuracy.
