Government had yesterday(17) issued an Extra ordinary Gazette Notification making Power supply,Petroleum services and Hospital service as an essential services .
This ExtraOrdinary Gazette Notification has been issued by the President's secretary under the advise of President Ranil Wikramasinghe.These services were Gazetted as Essential services in order to maintain public life without any distruption .
President Ranil Wikramasinghe had left for an Official visit to France and United Kingdom in the wee hours of this morning (17).
During his official visit he is due to hold discussions with Paris creditors club in france on Sri Lanka"s debt crisis and address Global Economic summit scheduled to be held in Paris ,France on the invitation of French president Emmanuel Macron.
Two masons who were involved in construction work near the Nuwara-Eliya Town had died on the spot after a 25 feet tall wall under construction had collapsing on them last evening (16).
Accordingly two masons who were mixing a,concrete mixture nearby the wall of a house under construction at old kachcheri road had died due to this incident.The deceased were residents of Elpitiya area in Galle district it has been revealed.
President Ranil Wikramasinghe had directed the relevent officials of the respective departments involving in expanding the stretch of Low level road between Orugodawatte and Ambathale(Colombo district) to complete the construction work of it within next three months period.
The construction work of the stretch which spans 7.7 Kilo meters had begun in 2016 and scheduled to be completed in 2020 .However due to the issues arisen during the construction work it got delayed to complete the project .
A progress review meeting regarding the project was held at the President"s secretariet under the patronage of President Wikramasinghe last morning (16).
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