The Sri Lankan government is to implement an island wide 100KW solar power generation programme to connect distribution to transformers utilising private sector investments, local media reports stated.
Sri Lanka’s Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga has reportedly appointed a high-powered nine member Steering Committee for Strategic Management of Global Promotional Campaign to promote the country’s tourism industry.
The government of Sri Lanka is reportedly pushing a new programme to boost local production of 16 agriculture products within the next four years in order to step up food import substitution.
Sri Lankan authorities are looking at developing and converting the Galle Harbour, which is in the heart of the country’s Southern Province, in to a major revenue generator for the country, according to Sri Lanka’s Co-Cabinet Spokesperson, Minister Dr. Ramesh Pathirana.
Sri Lanka’s first waste-to-energy power plant set up by the Aitken Spence Group’s Western Power Company was officially launched in Kerawalapitiya