Kilinochchi outlet opens:

Lak sathosa to open 400 outlets

Dharma Sri Abeyratne

The Co-operatives and Internal Trade Ministry will increase the number of Lak Sathosa retail outlets to 400 to make Lak Sathosa the market leader, Co-operatives and Internal Trade Minister Johnston Fernando said at the opening of the 196th Lak Sathosa retail outlet in Kilinochchi.

More Lak Sathosa retail outlets will be opened especially in liberated areas in the North and the East.

Under this initiative, two other Lak Sathosa outlets will be opened in the Mannar district within the next few weeks. It has been arranged to reach the target of opening 400 Lak Sathosa retail outlets by the end of the year.

The staff of the Lak Sathosa outlets will be recruited from the same area where the outlet is established. Therefore more employment opportunities will be available for the youth in the particular areas.

The main aim of opening Lak Sathosa outlets is to provide consumers with quality commodities at a competitive and reasonable price. As a people-friendly institute, more facilities will be added to the Lak Sathosa network.

Under this, quality rice will soon be available at Lak Sathosa.

The Ministry will commence operations of rice mills which had been closed earlier due to various reasons.

Local paddy harvest will be utilised to produce rice.

The rice will be sold through countrywide Lak Sathosa outlets, Minister Fernando added.

Several Ministers and Parliamentarians including Namal Rajapaksa also participated.