Cabinet to be briefed on Budget

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A special cabinet meeting is slotted at 9.30 tomorrow morning to give a hint of the budget proposals to the members of the cabinet, Information and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Gayantha Karunatilaka said.

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake is scheduled to present the second reading of the first budget of the UNP-led consensual government at 2.30 tomorrow afternoon.

Minister Karunatilaka added that the budget 2016 would also focus on the concept of President Maithripala Sirisena to make Sri Lanka self-sufficient in food which were currently being imported but could be locally produced, using every possible inch of earth for cultivation.(Sandun A Jayasekera)

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