Under the “Presidential Scholarship Program” initiated as a concept of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, approximately 3,000 out of 5,000 scholarships will be awarded to lay students, student monks, and Sheela Matha in Piriven and Sheela Mata educational institutions, with the ceremony taking place tomorrow (24) at 3:00 pm at the Temple Tress under the patronage of President Wickremesinghe.

Cabinet Decisions 

The Specialist Committee to Address Salary Discrepancies in the Government Service is now accepting proposals for revising salaries and allowances.

In order to encourage the fishing communities in the North and East, 5450 bags of rice subsidies of 50kg each received from the Chinese Government have been handed over to the Assistant Directors of the Fisheries department in the districts of Northern and Eastern provinces.