Be watchful about development too: MR

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President Mahinda Rajapaksa called on the people to be vigilant in respect of development activities as it was difficult to contain corruption and malpractice in those activities despite efforts made by the government.

Addressing a group of journalists at President’s House in Kandy on Saturday the President recalled the people’s committees that were functioning when he was a young Parliamentarian and said members of those committees were vigilant on local development activities.

He regretted that people today were not so serious and were concerned about corruption and malpractices taking place in local development activities as members of the people’s committee did in the past. (JAL Jayasinghe)

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