Business Today Sri Lanka Magazine - September 2022

In this issue

The Interim Budget, to prepare the basic foundation for changing the country’s economic trajectory, was delivered by President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Parliament.
MP Wajira Abeywardana is a colossus in political matchmaking, strategizing, and sagacity. As he savors his leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s phenomenal comeback, no less than as Sri Lanka’s President, from the political wilderness of defeat, he is already envisioning a long journey ahead. He is confident of Sri Lanka rising from the ashes to become a force to reckon with so long as the political elite and the people act wisely to give their new leader the space to work.
One-time SJB stalwart and vocal government critic, Minister of Tourism and Lands Harin Fernando, is today cohabiting in a Government he criticized. While explaining that his move to the Government was led by a desire to help rebuild the country, he knows that he remains a pariah among the SJB voters. Buoyant about the tourism industry’s take off amid an economic resurgence under a new presidency, Harin Fernando is a strong proponent of an all-party government and is betting immensely on Ranil Wickremesinghe to deliver as the “healing president” of Sri Lanka.
President Narendra Modi spoke on World Biofuel Day on the set up of new fertilizer plants, the importance of future piped gas connections, and several other areas that drive further the country’s development.