Tri Star employs 150 IDPs

by Ashraff. A. Samad, Dehiwela-Mt. Lavania Spe. Corr.

Tri Star Apparel Pte. Ltd. of Ratmalana has extended its fullest co-operation to the Government in providing employment to several internally displaced youth. These female former LTTE cadres rehabilitated by the Ministry of Rehabilitation had sought the help of private sector organisations to give them employment.

The first batch of 150 displaced girls will be given permanent employment at Tri Star's Ratmalana Garment factory.

These girls will receive, apart from their salary, cost of living allowances and overtime payments, hostel accommodation at Ratmalana with food, life insurance covers, housing loan, distress loans, marriage loans, medical facilities and entertainment facilities.

Chairman of Tri Star, Deshabandu Kumar Devapura set up the first manufacturing plant in the Eastern Province, Trincomalee in an area formerly controlled by LTTE rebels thus creating 1,000 job opportunities for people of all ethnic groups.

Tri Star will employ over 1,200 such people in its factories; the first batch of 150 girls will be employed tomorrow. At Ratmalana an inauguration ceremony in this connection will be held tomorrow.

All the beneficiaries and their parents will be participating. Ministers Dew Gunasekera and Gamini Lokuge, Deputy Ministers V. Muralitharan and Vijithamuni Soyza and Rehabilitation Commissioner General Brigadier S. Ranasinghe will address this ceremony.