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Deputy Chairman of Committees Chandrakumar Murugesu said in Parliament today that some parties with vested interests had spread lies that Sinhala people were being settled in the North.

Deputy Minister of Rehabilitation and Prisons Reforms, Sarath Chandrasiri Mutukumarana said in Parliament today that projects had been implemented to obtain the services of prison inmates in development programmes as that would also help reducing the congestion in prisons.

The Health Ministry had imported 5,432,704 bottles of saline to meet the local requirement in 2013 at a cost of 271 million rupees, Deputy Health Minister Lalith Dissanayake said in Parliament today.

National Heritage Minister Dr Jagath Balasuriya said in Parliament today that no antique item had been stolen from the National Museum in Colombo during the alleged break-in reported last week.

Coconut Development and Janatha Estate Development Deputy Minister Victort Anthony said in Parliament today that the present times could be termed as the golden era of coconut development history of Sri Lanka.

Ending of separatist conflict helped the government to channel funds from the war effort to grant relief to people in the 2015 budget, Plantations Industries Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said in Parliament.

Minister for Youth Affairs and Skills Development Dullas Alahapperuma stated that with the introduction of Technology as a subject in the school curriculum, the government has been successful in building bridges between the schools and work places. For the first time in history, unemployment has been reduced to less than 5 percent.

Sri Lanka’s permanent housing unit percentage reached 81 percent during the last four years and the construction industry’s contribution for the Gross Domestic Product last year was 8.6 percent, Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa said in Parliament today.