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Sunday, February 17, 2019

A Maximum Retail Price To Be Imposed On Nadu And Samba Rice Varieties

Ministry of Agriculture and Mill owners have reached an agreement to impose a maximum retail price for a Kilo of Nadu and Samba rice varieties with effect from 01st of April this year .

Accordingly the maximum Retail price of a Kilo of Nadu rice will be Rs.80 and a Kilo of Samba Rs.85 with effect from 01st of April.

Ministey of Agriculture is expecting to purchase a Kilo of Nadu rice for Rs.38 and a Kilo of Samba rice for Rs.41 according to Minister Of Agriculture P.Harrison.

Annual Free Postal Allowance Of MP's And Provincial Councillors Had Been Doubled -JVP Opposed The Move

The free Annual Postal Services

allowance provided to Parliamentarians and Provincial Councilors had been doubled through an extra ordinary Gazette Notification issued by Postal services and Muslim religious Affairs M.H.A Hakeem.

Accordingly the Annual Postal services allowance of Parliamentarians had been increased from Rs.175,000 to Rs.350,000 and the allowance of Provincial Councilars had been increased from Rs.24,000 to Rs.48,000.

The newly increased allowance will be provided with effect from 16th of January 2018 and Cabinet has also approved the increased allowance has been revealed

However Leftist Janatha Wimukthi Peramuna (JVP)has criticised the move by saying it is hard to believe that postal allowance of MP"s need to increase by such an amount as due to the new technology adapted by the Postal services the amount need to spend for that has been decreased .

JVP Has also stressed the need to look in to whether the MP's are utilising the Postal allowance provided to them annually correctly.