Why Govt. won't show its gas
Some fifty percent of the people using gas are from the upper middle classes and the government, therefore, does not want to intervene in bringing the prices down, a ministerial source said.

The minister who is on the cost-of-living committee but did not wish to be identified, said surveys had shown that though gas was projected as a major problem, only about 20 percent of Sri Lanka's population use gas and ten percent of them were from the upper middle classes.

He said the government was thus focusing on providing relief to the lower middle class and poor people. One such move was last Thursday's suspension of the price hikes on diesel and kerosene.

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