Posted on March 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
MEP government brought in
Capital Punishment Act No 20 of 1958,
which suspended the death penalty from May 1958.
Voting age at general election was
brought down to 18 years from 21 years.
Elections Amendment Act No, 11 of
1959.
May
Day was declared a holiday in Sri Lanka in 1956 for the Government
sector, bank and mercantile sectors.
A brand new
A
National Planning Council was formed it. This was a first for the
country. This Council brought out Ceylon’s first Ten Year Plan for 1959-68. This
Plan was prepared after consultation with economists such as Joan
Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Gunnar Myrdal. It was a