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Two teenage heroes honoured
Charithma Jinendri, a 17-year-old student of Siri Piyarathana Vidyalaya in Padukka and a resident of Irida Pola, Waga, Padukka, who saved a man and his wife trapped inside a flooded house was recently recognised at the first National Cadet Corps National Youth Heroes Award ceremony at the National Cadet Corps (NCC) Headquarters in Pamankada, Colombo recently.
State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon attended the event. The gathering was told how the teenager braved raging waters, swam towards the house with a rope and saved their lives at the risk of her own life.
The NCC National Youth Hero Award Ceremony is held to honour Sri Lankan young heroes with the objective of grooming youth to be dynamic, versatile and disciplined citizens with extraordinary leadership qualities to face any challenges in the society.
This year’s awards were presented to Charithma Jinendri and Sasindu Nimsara in recognition of their exceptional bravery and selfless action towards the wellbeing of others.
Speaking at the ceremony, State Minister Tennakoon praised the two award winners for their exemplary acts of heroism and also said that this award presented by the NCC for the first time is quite imoressive abd deserves mention as it is the NCC that trains and inspires schoolchildren through an effective training curriculum which inculcate values and moulds them to become efficient and effective leaders. He made it an opportunity to call upon the youth to join the NCC and empower national development.
Sasindu Nimsara, a Grade 10 student of Kivula Piriwena, Mahakumbukkadawala, Puttlam saved the life of a four-year-old child who was struggling for life after falling into a 36-foot-deep well. Risking his own life, Nimsara jumped into the well and rescued the child.DIG S. M.Y. Seneviratne, senior NCC officers and families of the two award winners were also present on the occasion.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Industries and Entrepreneurship Development to recognize the “Sri Lanka National Export
Development Plan – 2026–2030” as the official strategic framework for export development and promotion of exports in Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lanka Export Development Board, in collaboration with public and private sector stakeholders connected to the export sector, has formulated the National Export Development Plan 2026–2030 by obtaining technical assistance under the Policy-Based Lending Programme of the Asian Development Bank.
The aforementioned Plan provides a comprehensive strategic framework to guide and monitor Sri Lanka’s export development process, with the target of earning US$ 36 billion in foreign exchange through the export of goods and services by the year 2030
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Women and Child Affairs to accept the Global Charter for Children’s Care Reform for Sri Lanka.
Approval has been granted by the Cabinet of Ministers on several earlier occasions to amend the Consumer Affairs Authority Act No. 9 of 2003.
In accordance with the approval granted at the Cabinet
meeting held on 2023-05-02, the Legal Draftsman is currently in the process of preparing the relevant amended Bill, and the Legal Draftsman has informed that it would be appropriate to obtain policy approval from the present Cabinet of Ministers for that purpose.
Accordingly, taking into consideration the necessity of restructuring the Consumer Affairs Authority too, the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative
Development to instruct the Legal Draftsman to expeditiously complete the preparation of the relevant Bill to enable the amendment of the Consumer Affairs Authority Act, No. 9 of 2003.
Cabinet approves recognition of ‘Sri Lanka National Export Development Plan – 2026–2030’
Cabinet nod to accept the Global Charter for Children’s Care Reform for Sri Lanka
Cabinet grants policy approval to amend the Consumer Affairs Authority Act, No. 9 of 2003
Cabinet approal for Legal Draftsman to prepare a Bill to enable the amendment of Finance Business Act, No. 42 of 2011
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