Ranil: “SL to manufacture ships and cars”
Sri Lanka will manufacture ships and cars in some years time with the help of foreign investors, said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday.
He said the construction of a coal power plant in Trincomalee was in the pipeline.
“We cannot generate employment without foreign investors, and around 100 foreign investors will start projects in Sri Lanka before the end of the year,” he said.
He also promised to set up new schools with GCE Advanced Level science streams for estate children. He further pledged to transfer ownership of the land to those who had lived on state land for more than ten years. He said Nuwara Eliya would be turned into a special tourism centre.
“All these can be done if the people use their votes wisely on August 17,” he said.