The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe - Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development
The Minister stated that prices of 40 essential items sold through Sathosa have been reduced by 20 per cent compared with the previous six months, and that a related document was tabled. He said the Government intends to continue reducing prices to provide relief, while noting that procurement has been constrained because the Co-operative Wholesale Establishment had been inactive and its lorry fleet had previously been sold as scrap.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Regarding the goods available through the BONS institutions that you mentioned, Hon. Member, we inform you that the prices of 40 essential items have been reduced and provided through Sathosa. I tabled this document today; I cannot read it in full due to time. Compared to the last six months, we have reduced the prices of 40 essential items by 20 percent. We will continue to reduce prices and provide relief. What you say is correct. The reason is exactly what Hon. Dayasiri mentioned. From where do we procure goods now? We have the Co-operative Wholesale Establishment, but it was not bringing goods; it was closed. The previous governments even sold its lorry fleet as scrap. That is what happened.
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Cite as: The Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe - Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 19 March 2025. No. 1748499233099643. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/25329