Government committed to empower villages economically
The Government is committed to empower the villages economically so that economic power hitherto concentrated in Colombo would also be distributed to the periphery, said Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa MP on the occasion of the launching of the new rail bus service between Trincomalee ad Batticaloa.
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