Minister of Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media Gayantha Karunathilake will visit Northern province on March 26 to meet the provincial journalists to discuss their problems, the ministry said.
Both state and private media representatives will also take part in this three-day visit with Minister who is scheduled to meet the family members of disappeared journalists.
According to the minister, new three residencies will be built for the families of late journalists with the contribution of the three state media. The private media institutions also have expressed their willingness to extend the support in different ways.
Minister was addressing the “Digital Media and Technology Enabled Society” workshop for Parliamentary journalists organized by the Sri Lanka Parliamentary Journalists Association (SLPJA) in co-operation with the Department of Government Information yesterday. The training session was conducted by Dr. Lochandaka Ranathunghe, the Head of the Department of IT, Faculty of IT, and University of Moratuwa.
Minister speaking on the island-wide provincial journalists said that he has discussed with the Housing Minister Sajith Premadasa to initiate 25 housing villages in all the districts to provide houses for the provincial journalists who have not a permanent house.
The Constitutional Council has approved four nominees, proposed by the President, to fill vacancies in the Court of Appeal.
The Election Commission has announced the plan for leave for both public and private sector employees for the upcoming presidential election on September 21, 2024, without loss of salary or personal leave.
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) will reduce fuel prices with effect from midnight today.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe today called on ITAK’s Mavai Senathiraja at his residence in Jaffna today.
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