The Minster was announcing the Government’s decision with regard to imported sugar before the media.
He further said that he would take action to provide sufficient stock of sugar for the cooperative societies and take every measure to enable ordinary people to buy sugar at a
Government-controlled price.
State Minister Wakkumbura said that locally produced sugar and imported sugar will be sold to the consumers at Rs.125, and at a wholesale price of Rs.116 per kilogram
respectively.