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Sampath in Rikillagaskada

Sampath Bank opened a branch at Rikillagaskada, a rural township where agriculture takes pride of place, recently.

With the establishment of this branch, a special gift scheme was introduced to new accounts opened, where a variety of items like irons, caps, clocks, umbrellas and bags will be on offer.

Elder Health Care India appoints Ceylon Foreign Trades Consumer as Distributor

Elder Health Care India appointed Ceylon Foreign Trades Consumer as their sole distributor in Sri Lanka recently. The famous actor Anuj Saxena and the Managing Director/CEO Abishek of Elder Health Care signed the agreement with Managing Director of CFT Consumer Chatura Liyanage recently.

HDFC Bank CEO/ GM Suresh Amerasekera opens the Kegalle branch. AGM D.V. Pathirana and Kagalle Branch Manager Champa Aruna Kumari Abeykoon look on.

HDFC Kegalle relocates

HDFC Bank entered Kegalle 20 years ago as a building society, to provide financing for housing. After receiving the status of a specialised bank HDFC is in a better position to offer attractive services such as savings and fixed deposits in addition to providing financing for residential purposes.

The bank is also in the forefront of providing convenient banking in the form of palm top banking with the objective of capturing the community, who are not in the main banking system and at the same time assisting them to develop their savings habit. The bank is connected to the ATM network of Sampath bank with access to 228 ATMs.

BOI Job Fair creates opportunities for Wellawaya youth

The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour Relations and Productivity Promotion organised a Job Fair at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Conference Hall, Wellawaya recently.

The fair created an ideal opportunity for unemployed youth in the Wellawaya, Buttala and Monaragala areas, to find suitable employment opportunities. More than twenty six leading BOI enterprises who seek for staff participated at the fair.

Approximately 1000 job seekers were given the opportunity to meet company representatives and select jobs in diversified fields. This was a new experience for the youth of the area. The District Secretary Monaragala U K S Mihindukulasuriya was the Chief Guest.

Deputy Director General BOI A M C Kulasekera, Divisional Secretary Wellawaya K H A K Nishantha, Director Ms. Hema Perera, and Assistant Director Ministry of Labour Relations and Productivity Promotion K W Elapatha, Director BOI W A Jayasiri addressed the gathering.