President calls for separate mechanism to develop North | Sunday Observer

President calls for separate mechanism to develop North

5 March, 2017

President Maitripala Sirisena yesterday stressed the necessity to have a separate program to develop the Northern province and to meet other social needs of the people. Inaugurating the program, ‘Tell the President’ in Jaffna yesterday, President Sirisena said he will personally attend the meetings in Jaffna for at least four or five months consecutively to discuss development issues.

Only by adopting such a mechanism can we expedite the development of the North, he said.

The President said all Ministers and Ministry officials should participate at these meetings along with the politicians from the North as well as from the South to make the program a success.

He said the programs initiated by each Ministry for the development of the North should be submitted to the Cabinet, to ensure things run smoothly. 

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