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Public servants to take pledge to get involved in food security drive
View(s):When state employees take a pledge on their first working day on January 2 next year, they will also commit themselves to take all possible steps to meet the government’s food security priorities as the nation is facing an unprecedented economic and food crisis.
Public Administration Ministry Secretary M.M.P.K. Mayadunne said public servants from rural offices to the National Food Security Committee should commit themselves to perform this national responsibility stepping beyond their routine duties.
They should coordinate with the Central Government, Provincial Councils, and Local Authorities to produce the food required by the people to ensure food security, he said.
Last year, state sector employees were required to take a pledge to implement the then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s election manifesto titled “Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour”.
In a circular, the secretary said state employees were being encouraged to cooperate with the Government’s efforts to reduce state expenditure, and increase state revenue. They could learn a lesson from reforms introduced by the other countries to meet the challenges of the economic crisis, he said.
“At this time when the people are in arduous situations due to this economic crisis, which the world has never experienced in history, your attention is highly important now than before,” Secretary Mayadunne said.
In addition, state sector employees are also required to take action to introduce citizen charters and online-service delivery methods and to decentralise to other areas of the country the services, which were now provided to Colombo.
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