Govt has finger on pulse of people, need to alleviate consumer - Minister Dissanayake

Minister of Nation Building and Coconut Development Salinda Dissanayake said when there is a conflict in any country prices of goods usually increase. It is not reasonable to blame the Government.

Blackmarketeers always try to put innocent customers in danger. Our intention is to save the customers from this situation. He was addressing a public meeting after presenting coconut seedlings to the farmers of Narammala recently.

The Minister said that as a Government which has a finger on the pulse of the people and knew their aspirations they fully understood the need to alleviate the consumers burden.

He said the Government will spend hundred million for the development of infrastructure facilities such as roads, water, electricity, telephone etc. in the industrial estate and has planned to complete all infrastructure facilities before 2008.

The Minister said the usual practice of providing jobs concentrated in the city of Colombo has now changed to the villages with the implementation of the Gama Naguma project.