Need to obtain US$ 75 million to ease queues – PM
Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the country needs to obtain approximately USD 75 million within the next couple of days, in order to ease the queues.
He also said that we only have petrol stocks for a single day at the moment.
In a special statement today (16), he said that although the former government’s budget projected a revenue of SLR 2.3 trillion, SLR 1.6 trillion is the realistic projection of this year’s revenue with this year’s estimated government expenditure at SLR 3.3 trillion.