Ranjith Siyambalapitiya says, for a month #SriLanka spends 93 billion rupees on state worker salaries each month, for pension we spend 119 billion rupees a month and for the entire year it comes to 1428 billion rupees.
@EranWick says the strategic development act if flawed and if #SriLanka was to get revenue it should be through; foreign exchange, foreign investment can create jobs and government revenue through new enterprises generated.
@EranWick says, "Most of these projects approved our mixed developments, I am asking for whom are these projects? The poor and citizens of the country must have some benefits from this."
#SriLanka shares slip over 2% in mid-day trade on Tuesday (04) continuing the sentiments from the previous day.
The main index ASPI is down 261.54 points while the market generated a turnover of 3 billion rupees.
Top losers - Lanka IOC, Expolanka and John Keells.
The most liquid index S&P SL20 drops below 5%
If the index plunges below 7.5% the market trade will be halted.
@BandulaDr says the @RW_UNP is broadening the lunch project for school children and 51 percent in the student community there will be food security. The president has increased the budget of the project by 4 billion rupees.
"There are no medicines in the Ayurvedic Hospital only problems. Most of the time they give the best closest medicine to the person due to lack of medicine in the hospital." - Protestors from Ayurveda Junction
".@IMFNews says the number of state workers is high. Chairman of IMF thinks these people get paid in dollars? If we take in the entire Asian region we are getting a very poor salary." - Protestor
"There is not enough staff, there should be 700 but only around 200 are there. We should have 100 nurses but only around 40 are there. No new recruitments have been made for the past 10 years." - Protestor
#SriLanka’s central bank said it was holding its policy rates at 15.50 percent, while data showed market interest rates are close to twice the rate while private credit and imports falling as a consequence. @CBSL#SLNews#LKA
Sri Lanka's Opposition launches a program called Maha Jana Sabhava, where ideas and issues are being collected from the general public, with motives of potentially implementing system change and combating the #EconomicCrisisLK.
Several communities represented at the discussion such as #Aragalayaprotestors belonging to the deaf community, lawyers, mothers, state workers and supporters of SJB and was chaired by SJB Leader @sajithpremadasa, National Organiser TissaAttanayake and @hirunika7.
1)Discussions revolved around - 1. Economic Crisis and a plan for recovery 2. Increases in malnutrition and decreases in healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) 3. Establishment of committees for certain sectors involved in business and enterprise 4. Men and women's rights