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Sathosa to sell rice at Rs. 220 per kilo

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Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe told Parliament yesterday that action will be taken to sell 200,000 kilograms of rice daily to the public through the ‘Lanka Sathosa’, at a controlled price of Rs.220 per kilo to the public from today.

The Minister also said that steps will be taken to provide a coconut to the people in the suburban areas through Lanka Sathosa at a price of Rs.130 a nut within the next two weeks. He said this while participating in the debate on the government’s policy statement presented by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake recently.

The Minister also said that rice mill owners have agreed to release 200,000 kilos of rice per day to be sold through Lanka Sathosa at a price of Rs.220 per kilo.

The Minister also said that considering the current demand for rice in the local market and the damage caused to paddy cultivation due to heavy rains, the rice import restrictions have been lifted until midnight on December 20. The Minister also stated that the Government has taken steps to provide solutions to this problem by making rice available in the market as a solution to the rice shortage that has arisen in the market. Steps have been taken to solve the coconut shortage in the market in the next two to three weeks and to prevent consumers from exploiting. For this, 1 million coconuts will be released to the market.

In the past, various individuals and institutions have intervened to create shortages of goods in the country. We are trying to resolve this problem through discussions with those individuals and organisations. Otherwise, we will take specific measures as a government to prevent the people from being inconvenienced and exploiting,” he said.

(dailynews.lk)

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Names of Mayors and Chairpersons of several LG bodies gazetted

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A gazette extraordinary has been issued containing the names of Mayors, Deputy Mayors, Chairpersons, and Vice-Chairpersons of several local government institutions.

The names have been gazetted based on recommendations sent to the National Election by political parties and independents groups that secured a majority in local government bodies at the recently concluded Local Government (LG) election.    

Accordingly, the Election Commission has taken steps to publish the names from among the political parties and independent groups that secured a majority at the Local Government election held recently.

The names of the elected and nominated members for the respective local authorities, following the Local Government election were also published in the government gazette based on the respective administrative districts.

As per the gazette notification issued by the Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils, and Local Government on February 17, 2025, the term of office of local government bodies is scheduled to commence on June 2, 2025

පළාත් පාලන ආයතනවල සභාපතිවරුන්ගේ නම් ඇතුළත් ගැසට් පත්‍රය නිකුත් කෙරේ by poornima

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Weather Alert: Showers to ease in Southwest, strong winds forecast in North

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Prevailing showery condition in the southwestern part of the island is expected to reduced gradually from today (01st)

Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and North-western provinces and in Galle and Matara districts.

Showers or thundershowers may occur at a few places in Uva province and in Ampara and Batticaloa districts during the afternoon or night.

Fairly strong winds of about (30-40) kmph can be expected at times over Western slopes of the central hills and in Northern, North-central and North-western provinces and in Hambantota and Trincomalee districts.

The general public is kindly requested to take adequate precautions to minimize damages caused by temporary localized strong winds and lightning during thundershowers.

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Aluthgamage and Fernando assigned printing work in prison

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Former Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage and former Sathosa Chairman Nalin Fernando, sentenced this week to jail for 20 and 25 years, respectively, have been assigned duties in the printing section at the Welikada prison, sources said.

Both of them are being held together away from the main section of the prison’s ‘chapel’ section, where prisoners serving life sentences and those convicted of murder and rape are held. The prison’s printing section prints its own documentation.

Prison sources said that in placing them in relevant wards to serve their jail term, the authorities had taken into consideration the security of the two convicts, as they might have had political enemies.

Mr Aluthgamage was handed a 20-year term of rigorous imprisonment, while Mr Fernando was given a 25-year term of rigorous imprisonment by a High Court trial-at-bar after being found guilty of causing a Rs 53 million loss to the state.

They were accused of importing carrom boards and checkers boards through Sathosa during the 2015 presidential elections and distributing them to clubs.

Their lawyers said yesterday they were awaiting the certified copy of the judgement to prepare the appeal papers. The appeal will be considered by the Supreme Court.

(sundaytimes.lk)
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