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Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa yesterday said that the government while spending billions of rupees from its coffers to rehabilitate the facilities in the war ravaged north and east also borrow billions in dollars from friendly countries and lending agencies as loans for the same.
The Minister invited the private sector investors to come forward to start industrial and commercial activities in the Jaffna peninsula as it would help generate more employment opportunities for the educated youths of the area.
“Now the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has brought back all the displaced people of Jaffna to their own homes. This past incident is a bitter experience to the entire nation. As we have now completely ended the conflict that brought destructions especially to the north in the last thirty years, terrorism would not be allowed to raise its ugly head once again” the minister assured the people of Jaffna after inaugurating several development projects in the north.