The First stage of the country wide Blood Pressure monitor installation Programme have commenced 30th April 2012 from Colombo District.The Health Ministry has taken steps to installs many Blood Pressure Monitors in Island wide to avoid enriching the Healthy society.
The Ceylon Fisheries Corporation invites application from reputed distributors, who wish to register themselves with Ceylon Fisheries Corporation to distributor canned fish covering all Districts of Srilanka.
Application forms should includes
The North Central Provincial invites National and International Investors to invest in North Central Province especially in Anuradhapura.The facilities supported by Provincial Council
Adequate Land facilities
Infrastructure facilities
Incentives from Export Development Board
Export Promotions
The Health Ministry has taken a Step to install Blood Pressure Checking Monitors in all Main cities in Srilanka. The Installations is in the purpose to reducing the Non Communicable Diseases in Srilanka.
After the reconstruction of the southern Express railway, the Train services are become scheduled services between Maradana and Matara.
The Environmental Professionals Associations of Srilanka has organized a public lecture on Opportunities and Benefits of National Green Reporting System for Industries in Holcim Lanka Auditorium, Srilanka on 27th April 2012.
The Srilanka’s one and only International Airport of Bandaranayke International Airport will going under major development to fulfill the needs of tourism industry. The Airport and Aviation Service Ltd (AASL) has secured credit of USD 350 Million to develop the second phase development of Colombo International Airport.
The Ministry of Transport announced; the Srilanka Railway has earned Rs. 42.4 Million from the Freight Yard service in island wide.The freight transport service by rail was streamlined after the renovations of the Srilanka railways,
The University of Peradeniya, Faculty of Engineering invites applications for M.Sc in Sustainable Built Environment and M.Sc Eng in Building Services Engineering. The Degree programme is developed according to the international requirement and the Needs of Sustainable building Environment in Modern World.
The Srilanka Tourism to introduce fully automated licensing system to manage the growing needs of the tourism sector. The new automated system will help to be efficient and effective approach to obtain the approvals and licenses.
The World Bank grants USD 500,000 to Institute of Chartered Accountants of Srilanka to enhancing the institutional developments.
The Funds are will be used for to implementation of an audit quality assurance programme to educate Small Medium Enterprises, and improve awareness of the IFRS adaptation in Srilanka to Private and Public Sectors.
The Srilanka is a rising Tourism destination to the western and whole world, Srilanka has recorded number of Foreign Tourist arrived to srilanka through Maldives.Where Srilanka; is looking forward to developed Tourism with Joint Venture in Maldives Tourism Companies to add on Srilanka Destinations in to their Tour packages.
Srilanka Tourism Industry have faces Major Boost in near futures, Because of Tourist attractiveness the government of Srilanka has promoting Tourism Investment into the country.
Tourism in 2011
The Srilanka has recorded 820,000 Tourist arrivals in 2011 with Revenue of USD 800 Million. While the Tourism Board expecting 920,000 Tourist arrivals with the foreign income of USD 1.0 Billion.
1. Dedduwa, Bentota
2. Kalpitiya
3. Kuchchaveli
4. Pasikudah
Mid Scale Investment
Large Scale Investment
The Whole Southern coastal lines from Colombo to Matara have been reconstructed to allow High Speed (Express) Train will be relaunched on 19th April 2012.
The reconstructed rail way line will be allowed to run a train at a Speed of 100 Kilometers per Hour. The express railway will save time of 1 Hour and 40 Minutes than a Current Railway service to Colombo Matara. The New Express Trains will expect to ride from Colombo to Matara in 2 Hours time.
The Laksala is famous for Handicraft Production and after sale service, where the Laksala has open its New Outlet in National Museum in Colombo, Srilanka.
It’s a Clear statement made by the Central Bank Governor of Srilanka that any country can’t continue the Balance of payment continuously without any reduction or control. If the Balance of Payment Deficit increases continuously without any proper action, it will lead a bigger risk to economy.
The Ceylon Fisheries Corporation (CFC) and Happy Cook Lanka Food (Pvt) Ltd is Joint ventured up a 1st Semi Government Fish Canning Factory in Galle, Srilanka. The project has been invested of Rs. 840 Million for the new Fish Canning Factory is expected to produce 10,000 Can per day and expected to double the daily production capacity in few month times
The Metropolitan and Green Link organized an E-Waste Collection Day in Srilanka. The E-Waste Collection Day event will be held on Hyde Park Corner, Colombo 02.The Programme is setup in order recycle e-waste and reduce promote e-waste technology in Srilanka.
The International Monetary Fund approved a USD 427 Million loan to Srilanka shore up the government reserves and ravaged by a massive trade deficits.
Still Srilanka faces imbalances in exchange rants and the long running trade deficits, the IMF loan will help to improve the foreign reserve and take some development projects which will improve benefits in near futures.
The Kilinochchi and Mullaitivi will empowered with the Electricity power through the Vavuniya Kilinochchi transmission projects. The Projects invested of Rs. 3,000 Million to implement the transformers to brought to Kilinochchi and implement the projects.
The Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Plants are in the stage of Completions, the Upper Kotmale Power Plants have added 75 MWs in testing Process and it will expect to powered the National power requirements and fulfill the needs of electricity.
The Ministry of Finance has imposed New Import taxes for the Imported Vehicles. The new taxes will be implemented from the 1st of April 2012.
The New Tax Rates for Motor Vehicles in Srilanka
Hybrid cars
Petrol Cars
Diesel Cars
Petrol Van
Diesel Van
New Taxes for Three Wheelers
Motor Cycle
The Srilankan Air Taxi Proposed to Opens a New Sea Plane Landing location near to Bandaranayke international Airport, Srilanka.
The Project is developing for facilitating for the tourist convenience and the domestic needs of speed transport to airport on demand.
The Community extension Center of University of Colombo invites Applications for Certificate course on Rural Livelihood Development and Management Programme.
The Programme will be helps to the Candidates who would like to involve and start a rural livelihood development and anyone who would like to develop the rural development and support services.
The Colombo Hindu Ladies College, Organized an Event to helping hands to Displaced Women empowerments and Developments. The event is basically organized to helping to displaced people irrespective of the languages, race, religion and ethnics.
The Srilankan Airline, an International Airline of Srilanka, Its brought up the Asia Pacific Senior Golf Masters Championships in srilanka from 15th February to 18th February 2012
The Southern Express Highway is a High invested Highway project in Srilanka has harvesting benefits these days.
The Srilanka Government has earn over Rs. 151 Million over two month of Operations, the Project was invested on USD 700 Million ( Rs.78,900 Million), where it has start repay of the projects accumulate.
The Srilanka Export Development Board is in the process of collecting data of suppliers of Coconut & Coconut based products.
The data collections are to assistant them to find the market opportunity for their products and make aware such information to the exporters who outsource coconut based products for exports.