President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared that the Emergency Regulations on the provision of essential food items, in accordance with the powers vested in him via Section 02 of the Public Security Ordinance, enforcing the provisions of Section ii of it, will be in effect from midnight today (30).
This is mainly on the objective of enabling the authorised officers to purchase stocks of essential food items including paddy, rice and sugar at reasonable prices at government-declared prices or imported at the Customs, providing them to the consumers at reasonable prices, and recovering the loans given by the state banks to purchase stocks from the borrowers.
Major General M D S P Nivunhella has been appointed as the Commissioner General of Services essential for coordinating the distribution of paddy, rice, sugar and other consumer items required for the normal functioning of the people.
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අදාළ හදිසි නීති රෙගුලාසි අද මධ්යම රාත්රියේ සිට බලපැවැත්වෙන පරිදි ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා විසින් ප්රකාශයට පත් කර තිබේ.
වී, සහල්, සීනි ඇතුළු අත්යාවශ්ය ආහාර තොග සැඟවීම්, අධික මිල ගණන් අයකිරීම මගින් පාරිභෝගික ජනතාව අපහසුතාවයට පත්කරන වෙළඳපොළ අක්රමිකතා වැළැක්වීම සඳහා
— Kingsly Rathnayaka (@KingslyRathnyka) August 30, 2021
