The Island Home News Friday 24th June, 2011 3 DEVELOPMENT FORTUNE SATURDAY MAHAJANA JATHIKA JAYAVIRU VASANA Draw No: 1303 JAYODA SUPIRI VASANA JANA JAYA Date 21-06-2011 FORTUNE SAMPATHA Date: 02-03- SAMPATHA SAMPATHA SAMPATHA GOVI SETHA Main Draw Date:07-04-2011 Date 09-04-2011 Draw No: 131 Date: 10-04-2011 Zodiac -Leo Date: 21 -06 - 2011 2011 Date: 18-06-2011 Date:23-06-2011 Date:11-04-2011 Winning Nos: Draw No. 739 Bonus No 32 Date 15-06-2011 Draw No.219 11-16- 27- 45 Draw No. 2409 Draw No. 552 Draw No. 618 Draw No. 874 Draw No. 802 Winning Nos: Draw No. 2215 Lucky No. 10 Super No. 06 Second Chance Winning Nos : Super No.11 Bonus No. 05 Z-01-30-31-46 Zodiac symbol -Virgo Winning No: V-13-26-34-56 Winning No: Winning Nos: 15-20-48-49 23-48-58-64 Winning Nos: X-4-8-0-3-3-1 P-0-2-2-8-3 V- 26-46-51-56 C - 02-13-35-40 34 - 44- 47- 55 D- 15- 49- 56- 58 Spanish govt. willing to improve Rs. 250 mn for development in railway lights and ticketing systems North, East, NCP BY DON ASOKA WIJEWARDENA BY PABODHA HETTIGE The Spanish government has Deputy Transport Minister Rohana was also creating huge train delays ing system was outdated and The Ministry of ment of the industrial sector expressed its willingness to intro- Dissanayaka, when she visited his at times and many office workers requested Spain to help the SLTB Resettlement has allocated Rs. and water and sanitation proj- duce a state-of-the-art colour light office. were unable to report for work on with driver training programme. 250 million this year, from the ects in the district, he said. system, a mechanism to eliminate Solbis said that she was aware time as a result. Lack of railway He said most vehicles on public ministry funds, for various Out of the total amount of development projects in 11 funds allocated for 11 districts ticketless travelling and introduce that the Sri Lanka Railways was field maintenance was another roads were not roadworthy and districts in Northern, Eastern nearly Rs. 50 million would be a new ticketing system, Spanish running at a loss because many problem, she said. new legislation to examine those and North Central Provinces, used for developing Economic Affairs and Trade passengers had been travelling Deputy Minister Dissanayaka vehicles would come into effect Deputy Minister for Batticaloa, Muralitharan said. Affairs Advisor Therasa Solbis told without tickets. The signal system said that the existing driver train- shortly. Resettlement, Following a request he Vinayagamoorthi made to the Minister of Muralitharan says. Irrigation and Water “The projects are already Resource, Nimal Siripala de underway and will be com- Silva, concerning the difficul- White Flag Trial-at-Bar pleted before the end of this ties of the villagers and farm- year and once the projects are ers in the area, the Ministry completed there will be a of Irrigation and Water remarkable improvement in Resource had allocated Rs. 41 Three defence the lives of the residents, million to build bridges in the since they would be benefited Baticoala district, Minister witnesses ordered to in many ways,” Minister Muralitharan said. Muralitharan said. Nearly 50,000 farmers in Funds have been allocated Konndugalchenai, Akirana, be in Court on July 4 for each district to develop the Kanathdennan, industrial sector, reconstruc- Kalladiwattu, Muruthanan, BY A. J. A. ABEYNAYAKE tion and infrastructure and Minimiththenaveli, Colombo High Former Army Chief livelihoods. Unuchcheai up to Welikanda Court Judge Ms Gen. Sarath Currently,a two-million- areas would benefit from the Deepali Fonseka is indicted rupee project was underway project due to be completed Wijesundera on in the High Court of in the Batticaloa District to by the end of October. provide electricity connec- “The Ministry of Thursday (23) Colombo for alleg- tions and internal wiring of Resettlement has also allo- directed defence ing that Defence the houses of the families set- cated Rs. 8 million to supply witnesses, UNP Secretary tled in the Koolavati area and fishing equipment to fisher Deputy Leader Karu Gotabhaya a project costing Rs. 31.5 mil- families in Maruthankerny Jayasuriya, MP, Rajapaksa ordered lion had been area in Jaffna and also Rs. 20 Prof. Ashley Halpe the army to execute implemented to renovate million have been allocated and The Sunday surrendering LTTE the damaged houses of for housing projects in the Leader journalist cadres in the final Kaluwankerny,Thikkodai, district,” Minister Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena laid the foundation stone for a new Dental Hospital Raisa phase of the Vanni Kalawanchikudi and many Muralitharan said. near the National Hospital on Thursday (23). The construction costing Rs. 10 million is Wickremetunga to offensive. other areas, the Minister said. Similar projects had appear in Court on July 4. The case was put off for The ministry had also allocat- been implemented in nine to be completed in two years. Dr. Sumith Ananda (Deputy Director of the Dental Institute) ed Rs.7.5 million for rebuild- more districts and all proj- The directive was given July 4 as Justice W. M. T. P. assists the Health Minister. Deputy Health Minister Lalith Dissanayake, Senior Minister A. ing houses and another Rs. 9 ects would be completed when the White Flag case B. Warawewa was indis- H. M. Fowzie, Additional Secretary of the Health Ministry Dr. Palitha Mahipala and several million and Rs. 0.75 million before the end of this year, was called on Thursday. posed. others were present. (Pic by Sujatha Jayaratne) respectively for the develop- he said. SL needs innovative approaches for NLB appoints dealers, sales sustainable development – Anura Yapa BY IFHAM NIZAM agents in North, East Sri Lanka’s problem is accessibility and afford- and services through the SWITCH-Asia Programme ability, when it comes to meeting the challenges of [1]. sustainable development as it needs innovative Sri Lanka has been active in the programme BY DON ASOKA WIJEWARDENA approaches in today’s context, said Environment since its beginning, with three projects awarded The National Lotteries Board (NLB) amount of money distributed among the Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa. under the first two Calls for Proposals in 2008 and has appointed district dealers and sales winners was Rs.1,921 million. The amount Addressing the launching of National Green 2009. Currently, new project proposals are under agents in the North and East to expand its contributed towards development activities Reporting System in Sri Lanka last week, he said evaluation by the EU. sales promotion. Sinhala and Tamil man- was Rs. 525 million. The NLB had formulat- fundamental changes are needed for achieving The three ongoing projects in Sri Lanka are agers and sales promotion officers have ed a plan to provide opportunities for peo- global sustainable development. working on developing sustainable production in also been appointed to co-ordinate the ple in the North and East, who had suf- The proposed National Green Reporting Small and Medium sized Enterprises, in particular activities. The target of the NLB was to fered as a result of the war, to try their earn Rs. 16 billion annually in the coming luck, thus increasing the sales and increas- System comprises 50 indicators which includes 24 the food and beverages sector, one of the most years, NLB Chairman Chaminda ing the contributions made to the country. environment indicators, 20 social indicators and six important for local exports, and with greening the Athuluwage told a media conference at the economical indicators. hotel sector who are responding to the fast growing NLB head office in Colombo yesterday. He said that Sri Lanka has a long tradition of tourism in the country. Athuluwage said that the NLB was caring for the environment and for engaging in con- Delegation of the European Commission to Sri going from strength to strength due to sev- servation of natural resources. Lanka and the Maldives Head Ambassador Bernard eral steps being taken to improve to “Our contribution to global environmental Savage spoke of the financial crisis in 2009 which increase sales. degradation (emission) is far below the global aver- arrived at a time when the EU had started taking Conducting lotteries through SMS, age. However, with the increasing population, the historic decisions in climate change. making sales through Sathosa outlets, government has a challenge to ensure Ambassador Savage said that far from streamlining the sales network, identifying economic prosperity in the country being a reason to put the fight against cli- places where there were shortages of sales ensuring that the benefits of develop- mate change on the back burner, the eco- agents, appointment of new sales agents to ment will filter down to all the Sri Lankan nomic recession turned out to be a unique represent all Grama Niladari divisions, payment of an incentive of Rs.2,000 month- people within the framework of sustain- opportunity to accelerate investment in ly to those assisting district dealers, pro- able development,” he added. building a low-carbon economy needed to viding insurance cover for sales agents, He said that presently, specific sig- bring climate change, and consumption of granting financial assistance to children of nificant policies to promote sustainable natural resources, under control. sales agents and granting sponsorships by production and consumption are avail- He underlined that while the ‘business way of funds, were some of the steps taken able in the country such as the National as usual scenario’ is no longer feasible, by the NLB, he said. Cleaner Production Policy, Sectoral Cleaner sustainable development is necessary and only NLB Chief Financial Officer Harsha Production Policies for Health, Fisheries and possible, if a multi-stakeholder approach is adopted Bandara said that the principal aim was to Tourism etc. Implementation of these policies needs to secure an equal and responsible use of make contributions technical and financial resources to meet the incre- resources. to Sri Lanka’s nation- mental costs. Launched in 2007, the SWITCH-Asia al development pro- He says recognizing the significance of promot- Programme provides funding opportunities of 150 grammes through lottery draws con- ing voluntary performance reporting by the industry million over the period 2007-2013. The Programme ducted on all seven and service sectors in the path of sustainable works simultaneously on the ground, with produc- days of the week. development, the Ministry of Environment initiated a ers and consumers, and at the level of policy-mak- The income derived programme to establish a National Green Reporting ing by supporting formulation and implementation of from sales was being System in the country in accordance with the SCP-related policies. diverted to the Haritha (Green) Lanka programme developed and To date, the Programme is funding 30 projects Ministry of launched in 2009. in 15 Asian countries in areas such as Green Public Agriculture, The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce provided Procurement, Cleaner Production, Eco-design, Eco- Government technical assistance for this initiative through the labeling, etc. Consolidated Fund, SWITCH-Asia Programme. The Programme has an innovative structure Sports Ministry, Nearly 60 policy makers and practitioners met including three components: Social Services earlier this month in Colombo to boost sustainable The first component is composed of grant proj- Ministry, Ranaviru consumption and production across Asia and ects aiming to scale-up SCP implementation; Authority and Labour Ministry. South-Asia. The second component Network Facility, aim- He added that Ten SWITCH-Asia projects from across South ing to exchange and disseminate project experi- Colombo Airport Asia exhibited and discussed their latest progress ences and results, by strengthening the connection Super Draw and new towards sustainable consumption and production. between projects and contributing to spread their Air Port lottery were Projects from Pakistan to Sri Lanka work to knowledge and contribution to SCP implementation; available for pur- reduce greenhouse gas emissions, introduce clean- The third component targeted the policy mak- chase at $ 50 and $ 10 er production technologies, and establish green ers in Asian countries, by raising awareness, build- respectively. A part of procurement processes or eco-labels. ing capacity and developing an enabling institution- the income was con- The European Union, under its executive arm, al framework to design and implement SCP poli- tributed for Airport the European Commission promotes sustainable cies. development. From consumption and production practices for goods January to May, the