The Superintendent of the Mount Vernon Estate, Kotagala Plantations Arjuna Medagoda revealed that for the first time in history, an estate tea plucker had received a monthly remuneration of Rs.57,395.
The Economic Development Ministry launched a project to complete 886 mobile services within three months in the Uva Province under the Village-to-Village, House-to-House National Program to solve problems of the rural population. Out of this 46 have already been completed.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who traveled to Bolivia to participate in the G77+China Summit in Santa Cruz, arrived in the Bolivian city of La Paz on Monday (June 16) morning (Bolivia time).
Your Excellency Evo Morales, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia,
Excellences’,
Distinguished delegates,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me great pleasure to join you in this beautiful city of Santa Cruz de La Sierra to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Group of 77 and China.