“President has allocated additional Rs. 100 mn for Indigenous Medicine”

The President has taken measures to provide an additional amount of Rs 100 million to the Sri Lanka Ayurveda Drugs Corporation in this year’s Budget as a means of generating income in the field of indigenous medicine, State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Sisira Jayakody, said in Parliament yesterday (20).

The State Minister also said that the President has arranged to give this amount to the Ayurveda Drugs Corporation considering a request made by him as the Minister of State for Indigenous Medicine. The State Minister said this while joining the debate on the sixth day of the Second Reading of the Budget.

He said that the President has presented the Budget in a very difficult time. “As a country, we spent a lot of money during the Covid pandemic. At that time, the country was closed for one-and-a-half years. Some sections demanded that the country be shut down. However, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that economic problems will arise if the country is closed. But even if the country collapsed, some people insisted on closing the country,” he said.

“During that time, all sources of income were lost. I am sorry for the way some members of the Opposition talk, forgetting that history.”

“Assets of Customs, Excise and Income Tax officials should be investigated. We need to find out if they are paying taxes. Due to not looking for this, the country is losing a lot of taxes that it should be entitled to,” he said.

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