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Major employee lay off at Sevanagala - minister

The Sevanagala Sugar Corporation had 764 permanent workers and around 1,200 casual workers. This is now reduced and there are only 164 permanent workers and 300 casual workers. They have no EPF or ETF and most of them do not receive even basic allowances, Coconut Development and Janatha Estates Development Minister Jagath Pushpakumara said.

Addressing the press at the Coconut Development and Janatha Estate Development Ministry yesterday, the minister said that the sugar corporation has the ability to produce more sugar and they had met 12 percent of the national sugar requirement in 2002.

"But it has decreased by nine percent and they are meeting only three percent of the demand", he said.

Pushpakumara said the government has taken measures to takeover several non-profitable institutions under the purview of the government.

'Most of these institutions, have not achieved their core targets and responsibilities. They have showed profits while working outside the laid down targets", the minister said.

The government has taken measures to takeover 37 institutions, under their purview. But the Opposition is mostly talking about only a few institutions. These are the Pelwatta Sugar Corporation,Sewanagala Sugar Corporation and Ruhunu Putha Apparels (PVT) Ltd,he added. According to the minister, the spirits used in the manufacture of illegal alcohol have been produced as a by product of sugar production. "But in the last few years, after they had been privatized, the production of the above spirits had increased and they have produced 4,787,200 litres of spirit in 2008.

In 2002, they had only produced 2,025,800 litres", he said.

"These things have happened as a result of deviating from the core targets and responsibilities. It is only because of that the government is to takeover these institutions under its purview. Measures will be taken to develop these institutions as profitable institutions," the minister said.

 

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