Millions Of Employees Lunched An Island Wide Strike Today (28)

 Millions of Government ,Semi Government and Private sector employees had today (28) launched an Island Wide token strike demanding the Government headed by President and Prime Minister to resign.

Due to this strike organized by around 1000 trade unions representing various fields including Transport ,health ,ports ,Postal ,Fisheries ,University ,Education and Agriculture sectors  many services have  paralyzed which caused inconvenience to the public  it has been reported .

Thousands of Employees who had launched strike today protested on roads and marched towards the Galle face green where the major protests is being held urging government to resign ,

Litro Gas To Cut The Daily Gas Supply By 50 Percent

 Until the Country return to normalcy from the current economic crisis Litro Gas Company had decided to cut off the Gas supply by 50 percent according to the Chairman of the Company Vijith Herath ,

Accordingly the daily Gas supply will be reduced to 30,000  Cylinders per day from 60,000 -80,000 Gas cylinders per day supplied earlier he has stated .

As the authorities do not have US Dollars 30 million to purchase the monthly requirement of Gas Cylinders public should have switched in to alternative methods until the current situation return to normalcy the Litro chairman has stressed .

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Galle Face Protest Enters It's 19th Day

 

Ministry Of Finance Had Issued A Circular To Cut Down Government Expenditure

 The Ministry Of Finance had issued a new circular announcing  tough measures to restrict government spending for  essential services only .

The Circular had instructed the authorities to stop all new recruitments for the state sector and advised to suspend all overtime payments of those employees who had not covered over time duty ,The total Overtime payment received by a Government employee should not exceeds the salary of that person it has  been stated . 

Government Decided To Import Chemical Fertilizers And Pesticides

 Government had decided to import Chemical fertilizer and pesticides the imports which had been suspended recently according to Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Janaka Chakkumbura .

Due to the Government's Policy of using Organic fertilizer for crop cultivation in the country the importation of Chemical fertilizer and pesticides had been suspended since few months .However as Government has decided to import them again Minister Chakkumbura had requested the farmers to resume cultivation activities which suspended due to the shortage of Chemical fertilizer and pesticides .