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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.

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ගංවතුර, නායයෑම්, නියඟ ඇතුළු ස්වභාවික ආපදා තත්ත්වයන්ගෙන් පීඩාවට පත්වූවන් නැවත සවිබලගැන්වීම සඳහා මේ වසරේ මුල් මාස නමයට රුපියල් කෝටි 60කට ආසන්න මුදලක් රක්ෂණ වන්දි ලෙස පිරිනමා ඇතැයි ජාතික රක්ෂණ භාරකාර අරමුදලේ ප්‍රධාන විධායක නිලධාරි සනත් සී ද සිල්වා මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කරයි.

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The State Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, Ashok Abeysinghe said he requested the President to make the railways an essential service again, during the cabinet meeting.

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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.

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හබරණ හිරිවඩුන්න තුන්බි කුලම රක්ෂිතයේ අභිරහස් ලෙස මේ ගොස් සිටී ඇතින්නියන් ගේ මරණයන් පිළිබඳව වගකීම රජය භාර ගන්නා බව වනජීවී හා ක්‍රිස්තියානි කටයුතු පිළිබඳ රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය රංජිත් අලුවිහාරේ මහතා පවසයි.

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Moves by the Ministry of Power and Energy to carry out a 300MW expansion project in the Norochcholai Lakvijaya coal power has drawn fresh criticism from industry stakeholders.

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

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තමන්ට දේශපාලනයෙන් විශ්‍රාම යෑමේ වුවමනාවක් නැතැයි ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ඊයේ (28) පොලොන්නරුවේදී ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.

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Cabinet this week gave approval to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority to allocate Rs. 300 million for the development work of Galle Face Green.

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

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The Government has set a new record by increasing the salaries of public servants by 107 percent which hitherto no Government in power had ever granted, and it has also taken the extraordinary step of giving effect to the recommendation of the Presidential Commission on the elimination of salary anomalies, from January 1, 2020, Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera told the Media at the Finance Ministry on Wednesday, (September 25).

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ඇල්පිටිය ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සභාවේ ඡන්ද විමසීමට අදාළ තැපැල් ඡන්දය විමසීම අද පැවැත්වෙනවා. ඒ සදහා අවශ්‍ය සියළු කටයුතු මේ වනවිට සූදානම් කර ඇති බවයි ගාල්ල දිස්ති‍්‍රක් තේරීම්භාර නිලධාරී සෝමරත්න විදානපතිරණ සදහන් කළේ.

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

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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had visited the international book fair at the BMICH this morning (28).

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The Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs who is leading the Sri Lanka delegation to the 74th General Assembly Session is scheduled to discuss the matter regarding the Sri Lankan peace keeping troops with the Under Secretary General of the UN Department of Peace Operations today, September 27, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement yesterday.

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

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Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam informed the Presidential Commission that he had submitted 13 cabinet papers on several occasions with regard to providing tab computers for GCE A/L students and their teachers.

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The Department of Examinations states that due to the inclement weather the students who are unable to sit for the G.C.E. Advanced Level practical exams will be given another day if required. Examination Commissioner General Sanath Pujitha stated that another date would be provided once the weather improves.
G.C.E.(A.L.) Examination 2019 commenced on September 24.