Business community pledges customer friendly service to public

NIMAL WIJESINGHE Anuradhapura additional district group correspondent

The business community in the bank site of Anuradhapura city have united to provide a customer friendly service to the public deviating from ‘drawer to pocket and from pocket to drawer’ policy.

At a press conference held at the Grand hotel auditorium recently, L. L. G. Kularatne, the president of the newly formed business consortium said they intended to sell every item at their minimum price and provide the best quality goods to customers.

In addition to such services, the businessmen linked to the consortium would assist the police in maintaining security in the bank site and patronise the Anuradhapura Municipal Council in the garbage cleaning service in the zone.

He said that the new business consortium would train their staff enabling them to provide a polite and a quality customer service which would be exemplary to other businessmen in the area.

“We the ‘Anuradhapura bank site Business Consortium’ consist of nearly 150 traders dealing in textiles, fancy goods, hotels and catering services, hardware, cosmetics, drugs, printing, stationery etc.

There are a large number of vacancies available in our business places, as supervisors, bill clerks, receptionists and salesmen and women. But unfortunately the educated school leavers in Anuradhapura city and suburbs though they are unemployed are reluctant to take to such jobs. As such the new consortium will create a job market duly organised to attract the unemployed youth to work with us,” Kularatne disclosed.

He further said that the commercial zone relating to the new ‘Business Consortium’ would start from the bank-site clock tower extending to the D. S. Senanayake roundabout.

The Chief Minister Berty Premalal Dissanayake, the Anuradhapura Mayor Dr. Kithsiri Caldera and DIG (NCP) K. P. P. Pathirana have pledged their support and the cooperation to the new consortium facilitating the venture by a group of businessmen in Anuradhapura city for the first time as a daring and a new experience as far as the businessmen concerned.

P. M. A. Ariyatilake the Treasurer Sugath Dharmakeerthi also briefed the mediamen about the new set up. The new trend will be in effect from December 21 to 31 as a trial.