Colombo (LNW): On the order of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, postal service has been declared as an essential service.
The declaration has been made under an extraordinary gazette, effective from Wednesday (08).
“By virtue of the powers vested in me in terms of section 2 of the essential Public services Act, No. 61 of 1979, I, Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of the democratic socialist republic of Sri Lanka, do by this order, considering it necessary that the services provided by any Public Corporation or Government department or Local Authority or Co-operative society or any branch thereof being a department or Corporation or Local Authority or Cooperative society, which is engaged in provision of the service specified in the Schedule hereto, is essential to the life of the Community and is likely to be impeded or interrupted, declare the service specified in the Schedule hereto to be an essential public service for the purposes of the aforesaid section. Given at Colombo, on the 08th day of November, Two Thousand and Twenty Three.
