Pack of ten vegetables worth Rs. 500 at railway stations from tomorrow
A relief pack of 10 vegetables will be made available at Rs.500 at the Maradana railway station today onwards.
The packs are available at all railway stations including the Colombo Fort railway station tomorrow onwards.
Railway Services State Minister C. B. Rathnayake has taken this initiative to ease the burden of the public.
The Minister said a pack worth about Rs. 800 will be given at concessionary rate of Rs.500. He distributed the packs to railway commuters at the station yesterday in a ceremony.
A pack contained sweet potatoes, beans, leeks, lime, tomatoes, carrot, green grams, karapincha, mukunuwenna and pumpkin.
A dry ration pack of two red rice kilos, one sugar kilo, one dhal kilo and one canned fish tin by Lanka Sathosa will also be provided to the railway commuters at Rs.500.
Minister Rathnayake said that the cafeteria facilities will be improved at railway stations to provide good meals to railway commuters in the future.
(Source: Daily News)
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Don’t give concessionary rate on anything. Not only on food also on rail fares. Let the people know the real value of food or anything as rail fares. That will make them stay at home and grow their own food at home instead of warming the chairs in government offices. People who work in private sector is paying for these idol gits,
Excellent comment Ranjith,
In Sri Lanka, everything is “FREE”.
All consumer items sold below cost, transport below cost, petrol below cost, public servants given tax free car permit, education free producing good for nothing Graduates taking showers in the streets on Colombo under Police Water Cannons,
We are used to this kind of life, evertything free.
The Politicians do this to keep pepole happy so that they can earn big time KOMIS.
The cost of this pack of food is R s800. So it be sold at Rs 1000. But they are sold at Rs 500. So how are they going to recover this Rs 500 from this short fall. By selling countries assets, borrowing from world banks or exporting people to work in middle east like slaves, Above all what will be our hard working farmers and Tea estate workers say to their children. Why do you want to do this back breaking job when you can cram a book and get bogus job and do nothing and at the end you can pick up a subsidise food packet. Not only that your children get free books, uniforms and meals. How cool is that.
At least the government has assessed the situation, and provided a short term measure to the struggling public.
Continuous bad weather has affected crops, thereby supply/ demand also affected resulting in scarcity and price increase.
This is a smart move, provided scam artists do not buy up the subsidised goods to make a profit!