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NE local council heads also get duty-free vehicle permits
View(s):Another group of mayors, deputy mayors, chairmen and vice chairmen of local authorities, this time from the North and East, will soon receive permits to import duty-free vehicles. If they do not wish to import, they will be offered the privilege of buying locally assembled vehicles on concessionary terms.
The permits are being issued in accordance with a Cabinet decision in December 2010. This decision allowed local authority heads and deputies who complete four years of consecutive service to buy vehicles on duty-free permits. Approval for the latest group of local council heads to buy duty-free vehicles came on a recommendation to the Cabinet by Local Government and Provincial Councils Minister A.L.M. Athaullah. He cited the 2010 Cabinet decision to seek clearance.
Those who will benefit are from the Jaffna Municipal Council, Vavuniya Urban Council, Batticaloa Municipal Council, Eraurpattu Pradeshiya Sabha, Koralepaththu Pradeshiya Sabha, Koralepaththu North Pradeshiya Sabha, Manmunai South Eruwilpaththu Pradeshiya Sabha, Manmunai Pradeshiya Sabha, Manmunai South West Pradeshiya Sabha and Porativpattu Pradeshiya Sabha.
Minister Athaullah has also sought Cabinet approval for the widows of Central and North Western Provincial Council members to buy vehicles. These members were unable to use their entitlements and are now dead. He said the secretaries of the two Provincial Councils had said such a move would be a “tribute for their long period of service” by the departed members.
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