Special unit set up:

Ministry to the rescue of coastal belt industrialists

by Irangika Range and Anjana Samarasinghe

The Ministry of Small and Rural industries has come to the rescue of a large number of industrialists along the coastal belt of the country who have been directly and indirectly affected by the tsunami disaster. Thousands of small and rural industries including textiles, bakeries, food and beverages, rice mills, carpentry, fibre glass boats, coir, pottery and tourism related industries have been badly affected.
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