Financial Times

Business Chambers meet Pillayan to discuss urgent business issues

Eastern Province Chief Minister, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan a.k.a Pillayan met a delegation from business chambers recently to discuss urgent issues facing small and medium scale enterprises in the region.

Picture shows from left --Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, Mr Hizbullah, S. Soosainathan – FCCISL, Rohantha Athukorala – Director Economics SCOPP and President Trincomalee Chamber Ram Rajmohan.

Officials said the Chief Minister said he would support the private sector aspirations to make the Trincomalee district a hub district for business and to make the eastern region to be industrialized.

The Chief Minister met representatives of the Trincomalee Chamber of Commerce in the presence of Provincial Minister M.Hizbullah and Economics Director of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process, Rohantha Athukorala, in Trincomalee last week



 
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