Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP for the Matale district Rohini Kaviratne has sought the intervention of the Bribery Commission and the Auditor General to intervene to ensure whether the allocation of Rs. 5 billion in the budget for the payment of Rs.200 each to estate workers belonging to private plantation companies.
She has written to these two institutions to examine whether it is unlawful or not. Asserting that it is a national priority to look after estate workers, she said around 40,000 workers who do not belong to the major plantation companies are not even covered by this proposal.
She said it is an allocation made only for the benefit of estate workers working in plantations coming to the main companies. She argued that allocations could not be made from the Consolidated Fund for the benefit of private sector employees in this manner.
(Source :dailymirror.lk)
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