Provide urgent flood relief - President
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday directed State officials to
identify the present disaster caused by heavy rain and floods and
provide urgent relief to the affected people without restricting
themselves to the stipulations of official circulars only.
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Bad weather curtails
President’s visit |
| Bad
weather prevailing in the Polonnaruwa area compelled
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, to curtail his visit to flood
affected areas and return to Colombo, the Information
Department said yesterday.
The President yesterday
commenced his assessment by visiting Polonnaruwa, but the
bad weather compelled the authorities to cut short his visit
and return to Colombo. |
The Government would always stand by decisions taken by the State
officials for the welfare of the common masses. The President said so
addressing State officials in the Polonnaruwa district at the
Hingurakgoda Ananda Balika Vidyalaya during a fact finding tour in the
Polonnaruwa district about welfare activities provided to flood affected
people.
The President said it is the ordinary folk who had faced the brunt of
the flood havoc and it was the duty of all to join hands and help them
at this hour of need without any discrimination or petty considerations.
Ministers Maithripala Sirisena and Mahinda Amaraweera, Deputy
Ministers Chandrasiri Sooriyarachchi and Siripala Gamlath,
Parliamentarian Roshan Ranasinghe and Secretary to the President Lalith
Weeratunga were also present on the occasion. |
