Election propaganda has begun!
Buying today’s (19th) ‘Dinmina’ would be beneficial for all those who take their lunch parcels for work or places of study. The 140 page newspaper with advertisements from 72 state institutions that are maintained from your tax money has been priced Rs.20 though it should have been made available free to tax payers.
Most of the advertisements in today’s ‘Dinamina’ (news paper with low circulation) are full page advertisements that cost Rs.185, 000.There would be more such advertisements in the days to come.
Some of the ‘public’ institutions that have contributed advertisements are:
- Western Provincial Council
- Ministry of Buddhasasana and Religions
- Ministry of Economic Development
- Employees Trust Fund
- Sabaramuwa Provincial Council
- Provincial Governors and Secretaries
- Ministry of Social Welfare
- Kurunegala Pradeshiya Sabha
- North – Eastern Ministry of Agriculture
- Colombo University
- Fisheries Corporation
- Ceylon Petroleum Corporation
- Sri Lanka Cashew Corporation
- Bilathsinhala Pradeshiya Sabha
- Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment.
- Horana Urban Council
- Ministry of Defense and Urban Development
- National Savings Bank
- Ministry of National Heritage
- Ministry of Culture and Arts
- Kandy Municipal Council
- Ja-ela Urban Council
- Ministry of Sugar Industry Development
- Southern Provincial Council
- Draniyagala Pradeshiya Sabha
- Department of Motor traffic
- Institute of Industrial Technology
- Western Provincial Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs
- Warakapola Pradeshiya Sabha
- Federation of Consumer Associations of Sri Lanka
- Gampaha Pradeshiya Sabha
- Negombo Municpal Council
- Ministry of Land and Land Development
- Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development
- Mahanuwara Kadawath Pradeshiya Sabha
- Nawalapitiya Urban Council
- Ambalangoda Urban Council
- Udunuwara Pradeshiya Sabha
- Ministry of Health
- Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation
- Embilipitiya Urban Council
- Meda Dhumbara Pradeshiya Sabha
- Ganga Ihala Korale Pradeshiya Sabha
- Katuwana Pradeshiya Sabha
- National Youth Brigade
- Kekirawa Pradeshiya Sabha
- The Institute of Agro-technology and Rural Sciences of the University of Colombo
- Uva Provincial Council
- National Insurance Trust Fund
- Ministry of Education Services
- Wattala Urban Council
- Eastern Provincial Council
- Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms
- Ministry of Traditional Industries & Small Enterprise Development
- Pharmaceutical Corporation of Sri Lanka
- Ministry of Disaster Management
- Mawanella Pradeshiya Sabha
- Aranayaka Pradeshiya Sabha
- Lake House
- Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha
- Ministry of Ports and Highways
- Ministry of Higher Education
- Kuruwita Pradeshiya Sabha
- National Film Corportion
- North – estern Provincial council
- Mirigama Pradeshiya Sabha
- Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha
- Upcountry Development Authority
- Department of Irrigation
- Ministry of Law and Order
- Ministry of Labour and Labour Relation LT