{"id":222118,"date":"2021-08-30T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=222118"},"modified":"2021-08-30T00:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T18:36:48","slug":"no-other-politician-than-mangala-samaraweera-had-shown-support-towards-the-development-of-cooperatives-jaffna-district-cooperative-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-other-politician-than-mangala-samaraweera-had-shown-support-towards-the-development-of-cooperatives-jaffna-district-cooperative-council\/","title":{"rendered":"No Other Politician Than Mangala Samaraweera Had Shown Support Towards The Development Of Cooperatives: Jaffna District Cooperative Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">No other politician than late <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mangala+Samaraweera\">Mangala Samaraweera<\/a><\/span> had shown support towards the development of the cooperatives, says the Jaffna District Cooperative Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Issuing a statement <span class=\"s1\">the Jaffna District Cooperative Council said: &#8220;Driven by his vision of reconciliation, the late Mr. Samaraweera introduced special development schemes for the war-affected regions in the national budget. To rescue the people who fell into the debt trap of predatory microfinance companies, he disbursed 292 million rupees to the credit cooperative sector in the North and created the \u201cAravanaippu\u201d loan scheme. He disbursed a further 450 million rupees to revive the producer cooperative sector to create 50 industries. Under this loan scheme, 40,000 small scale loans have been granted through the cooperative sector.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_222119\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-other-politician-than-mangala-samaraweera-had-shown-support-towards-development-of-cooperatives-jaffna-district-cooperative-council\/mangala-samaraweera-24\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-222119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222119\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mangala-Samaraweera.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mangala-Samaraweera.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mangala-Samaraweera-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mangala-Samaraweera-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-222119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samaraweera met women\u2019s groups at the Puthukudiyirippu Divisional Secretariat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We publish below the statement in full:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The loss of Mangala Samaraweera, former Parliamentarian and former Minister, is indeed shocking news for many. The political leaders of the country have described his demise with a heavy heart as the loss of an irreplaceable leader, a great hero, a senior leader of the country and a voice that advocated justice for the Tamil national people and their political freedom. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Those of us who are members of the cooperative movement in the North feel immense sadness at the loss of a friend of our movement. There is no surprise that the late Mangala Samaraweera, who dedicated himself to serving the people in a just and fair manner, upheld democratic traditions, and strove for the creation of a society free of inequalities, had faith in the cooperative movement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The late Mr. Samaraweera strongly believed that the Cooperative Movement could achieve a lot for the wider society. He once described the cooperative system as a sleeping giant and lent his hand towards its revival. Sadly, he entered eternal rest before seeing its full rejuvenation, leaving us in grief and sorrow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Driven by his vision of reconciliation, the late Mr. Samaraweera introduced special development schemes for the war-affected regions in the national budget. To rescue the people who fell into the debt trap of predatory microfinance companies, he disbursed 292 million rupees to the credit cooperative sector in the North and created the \u201cAravanaippu\u201d loan scheme. He disbursed a further 450 million rupees to revive the producer cooperative sector to create 50 industries. Under this loan scheme, 40,000 small scale loans have been granted through the cooperative sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">No other politician had shown such support towards the development of the cooperatives. The cooperative sector remembers with gratitude the many visits made by the late Mr. Samaraweera to the Jaffna District Cooperative Council and co-operative societies in the Jaffna District. He interacted in person with the members of those societies and observed their activities with keenness. Standing shoulder to shoulder with members of the cooperative movement, he carried out his ministerial responsibilities both as a friend and as a person committed to service. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Even as many among us were splitting hairs over whether the \u201ccooperative movement\u201d came under the purview of the central government or the provincial administration, the late Mr. Samaraweera embraced the Tamil regions that had faced severe destruction during the war and the people whose lives were in tatters, and recognized the supportive role the cooperatives could play in their rejuvenation. He offered us a helping hand in the hour of our need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2016, when he was the Minister of External Affairs, for the first time in history, he held ministerial level talks with his counterpart in India to seek a solution to the problems that Northern fishermen were facing due to the poaching of Indian trawlers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The late Mr. Samaraweera was simple, friendly, honest, justice-minded and likeable. We have lost a friend of the cooperative movement. As cooperative workers from the Northern Province, we, in our thousands, pay our heartfelt homage to this great leader and pray for his soul to rest in peace. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":222119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Other Politician Than Mangala Samaraweera Had Shown Support Towards The Development Of Cooperatives: Jaffna District Cooperative Council - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta 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