The Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees Union made a request to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa seeking the issuance of essential consumer items at the prices declared in January, 2020 for low income families.
In the wake of the economic crisis withe the tragic deterioration of forex crisis, the Union urged the President to present to the people in detail the government’s remedial measures in temporarily managing the forex crisis till the end of the year and its proposed long-term programme in solving the crisis permanently, provide all households with less than Rs. 75,000 per month income , a ration including fuel, kerosene, LP gas, bread, wheat flour, rice, sugar and Mysore dhal at 2020 January prices for at least a year, besides the demand for increase of wages by private sector trade unions, meeting the responsibility of the government in ensuring food security and daily needs of all people and provide the fishing industry with subsidised fuel for boats through fisheries co-operatives.
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