Minister Gunawardane in conversation with a committee member The government will start obtaining public comments on the proposed new National Trade Policy within the next few weeks, Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardane told the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Trade Affairs held recently at the Parliament complex. Minister Gunawardane said that an expert committee too had been […]
Minister of Power, Dullas Alahapperuma recently instructed CEB officials to remove utility poles erected in an ad hoc manner and paint them white to prevent motorists from crashing into them at night. CEB officials have been instructed to hold discussions with Road Development Authority (RDA) officials on the matter. These instructions were given at the […]
Minister Aluthgamage addressing the Committee
The total paddy output for 2021 would be five million metric tons and it would be the highest volume of paddy produced in recorded Sri Lankan history, Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage told the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Agriculture recently.
The Maha paddy cultivation of 742,000 acres was expected to bring in a total harvest of over 3.2 million metric tons and the Yala a harvest of 1.8 million metric tons.
“We will change the way we purchase paddy from farmers. We will establish a system where the farmer is paid on the spot. We want to minimise the involvement of middlemen with this,” the Minister said.
Document in its entirety handed over to AG By Shamindra Ferdinando The Presidential Secretariat yesterday (12) handed over the remaining 22 volumes of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) report, hitherto declared sensitive and withheld from Attorney General Dappula de Livera, PC. The delivery of those volumes which dealt with some aspects of the 2019 […]
Chairman of the COPE, Prof. Charitha Herath MP has instructed Secretary to the Ministry of Environment, Dr. Anil Jasinghe to amend the National Environmental Act to meet the needs of the time. The COPE Chairman said that there had been attempts to amend the National Environmental Act for two decades. Prof. Herath said that there […]