Saturday, December 31, 2022

A Proposal To Increase The Electcricity Bill To Be Submitted To Cabinet Tomorrow(02)

 The Cabinet Proposal to increase the Electricity Bill is scheduled to be submitted to the Cabinet tomorrow(02 ) according to the Government .Cabinet Decisions taken at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on  30.03.2020 - Sri Lanka News - BusinessNews.lk

According to the Cabinet Proposal the Rs.8 rate charge for the usage of first 30 units of Electricity  recommended to increase to Rs.30.Also the Proposal recommends to increase the rate of Rs.10 charge per unit for the usage of 31-60 Electricity units to Rs.37 per a unit ,and the Rs.16 rate charge for the usage of Electricity units  from 61-90 units  to Rs.42 per unit .

30,000 Government Employees Retired Yesterday (31`)

 Around 30,000 Government employees who are of the age of 60 years had  retired yesterday ( 31)  accordance to the Government sources .These employees had retired accordance to the retirement age fixed by the government recently .Emblem of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

The previous government had extended the retirement age of Government employees to 65 years and it has been implemented since 01st of January 2022 .However government had decided to reduce the retirement age to 60 again late last year (2022) due to the current economic crisis.

However due to the service requirement  secretaries of the President and the Prime Minister had  recommended to keep 300 employees attached to the Railways department in service further .The new recruitment's to fill the vacancies created as a result of  those who had retired ,    will be made soon the Ministry of Indigenous affairs had announced.

Baltimore Port Closure May Hit US Coal Export Volumes

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