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අප්‍රේල් 21 පාස්කු ඉරුදින ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබද සොයා බැලීමේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු විශේෂ කාරක සභාවේ සාමාජිකයින් හෙට (04) යළි රැස්වීමට නියමිතව ඇත.

Senior Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Rajaratnam was appointed as the Acting Solicitor General by the Public Service Commission with immediate effect, the Attorney General's Coordinating Officer said.

The Cabinet granted approval to raise the minimum monthly salary of workers to Rs.12,000 from Rs.10,000 and daily wage to Rs.500 from Rs.400 with effect from January 1, 2016. The Cabinet paper had been presented by President Maithripala Sirisena last Tuesday.

Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya said deposits from Presidential candidates will not be accepted on Saturday (5) as it is a public holiday.

Cabinet yesterday approved the payment of an allowance of Rs. 15,000 to all officers in the executive grades of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) irrespective of how many years they had been in service.

Senior officials have been found to have misled the Cabinet of Ministers by submitting a false report for the procurement of one million pre-printed smart cards to the Department of Registration of Persons with the aim of siphoning off around Rs. 60 million, an official report revealed.

The Ministry of Internal and Home Affairs and Provincial Councils and Local Government has called quotations from Just in Time Technologies Pvt Ltd, pre-supplier as a re-order to purchase one million pre-printed smart cards.

The company has quoted a price of Rs. 185 per card at first and later agreed to supply cards at a price of Rs. 171.50 per card.

According to official documents, this company had earlier supplied 500,000 cards for the initial procurement order at a price of Rs. 124 per card and again it has supplied 250,000 more cards as a re-order at the same price.

The Cabinet appointed committee to examine the price proposal has recommended that the ministry should not procure smart cards from Just in Time Technologies at a very high price of Rs 185 per card since the same company previously supplied it at a price of Rs. 124 per card.

Making observations to the Cabinet memorandum of the ministry relating to this present procurement of smart cards, the Finance Ministry has recommended the Secretary to the Ministry of Internal and Home Affairs to reconsider the deal prior to awarding the contract to the current supplier.

The Finance Ministry has informed the Secretary to the Ministry of Internal and Home Affairs to examine whether there are any other bidders in the most recently awarded tender with prior experience who can supply pre-printed cards within stipulated period at a much lower price.

In consideration of foregoing facts, what the Commissioner General of Department of Registration of Persons or the Ministry Secretary should have done was to call the previous supplier of smart cards and inquire their price and time period required to make the supply, the report said.

This supplier was the very first company which has supplied pre-printed cards for the national identity cards at a price of Rs 71 per card, official documents revealed.

Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Arjuna Ranatunga has vested the Jaffna International Airport (JIA) with the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAA) ahead of the commencement of regional commercial operations in mid-October.

Cabinet yesterday approved the Vote on Account, prepared by the Ministry of Finance incorporating the expenditure of the Government for the first four months of 2020.

The Elections Commission has extended the deadline for the postal votes for the Presidential Election until October 4, the Commission said.

There will be no Government holiday declared on Friday (October 4), Internal, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government Minister Gamini Seneviratne said today in a statement.

The extension of Southern Expressway to Hambantota and Mattala is scheduled to be vested with public within next 2 weeks.

වර්ජනය හේතුවෙන් දුම්රිය ධාවන කටයුතු සඳහා විශ‍්‍රාමික නිලධාරීන් 20 දෙනෙකුගේ සේවය ලබා ගැනීමට දුම්රිය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව කටයුතු කර තිබෙනවා.

Letters have been sent yesterday to the striking railway workers considering them as having vacated their posts, Railways General Manager Dilantha Fernando said.

President Maithripala Sirisena has issued an extraordinary gazette to extend the term of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to look into fraud and corruption at State Institutions from 2015 to 2018, till October 31.

ජනාධිපතිවරණයට අදාළ තැපැල් ඡන්ද අයැදුම්පත් භාර ගැනීම අද දිනයේන් අවසන් වීමට නියමිතව ඇත.

මෙවර ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහා අපේක්ෂකයන් ඉදිරිපත් කරන බව දැනුම් දී ඇති දේශපාලන පක්ෂවල නියෝජිතයන් සහ මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ නිළධාරීන් අතර විශේෂ සාකච්ඡාවක් අද (02) පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතය. එම සාකච්ඡාව අද පස්වරු 04 ට පැවැත්වෙන බවයි මැතිවරණ කොමිසම පවසන්නේ.

Presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa said he would submit a proposal to the Cabinet today with the intention of resolving the issues faced by security forces personnel.

වර්ජනයේ නිරත රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ගේ වැටුප් විෂමතා විමර්ශනයට පත් කළ කැබිනට් අනු කමිටුව අද රැස්වීමට නියමිතව ඇත.