{"id":113484,"date":"2021-04-13T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113484"},"modified":"2021-04-13T15:55:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T22:55:56","slug":"an-open-letter-to-hon-bandula-gunawardena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/13\/an-open-letter-to-hon-bandula-gunawardena\/","title":{"rendered":"AN OPEN LETTER TO HON. BANDULA GUNAWARDENA."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP\/SLPP Stalwart, Member “Viyathmaga” – April 13th., 2021<\/em> <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Providing the consumers\/citizens a bottle of quality, local cocunut oil at a control price of Rs. 450\/=\u00a0through Sathosa and Cooperatives, is much welcomed by the “Nation”. But what will be the volume of Coconut Oil in these bottles?<\/strong> ( A standard bottle of wine is \u00be of a liter, or\u00a0750 milliliters<\/strong> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking necessary steps to provide the consumers\/citizens a\nbottle of quality, local cocunut oil at a control price of Rs. 450\/= through Sathosa and Cooperatives, until the\nend of this year, is much welcomed\nby the “nation”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Sir, mentioning just a bottle of coconut oil allows the\ntraders and retailers to “CHEAT” the consumers out rightly. Because\nthere is “NO” standard bottle in Sri Lanka for selling liquids,\nespecially coconut to customesr. It is VERY IMPORTANT to make it clear what is\nthe VOLUME of coconut oil this “so-called” BOTTLE will contain.\nQuality Coconut Oil provided and supplied by the All Ceylon Traditional Coconut Oil\nManufacturers Association at a price of Rs 450\/= should be clearly specified by “VOLUME”\nplease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The specified “VOLUME” of oil in any bottle (in\nliters) will be the best “FAIR TRADING” policy you could adopt and\n“NOT” just a bottle of oil, because, traders and retailers will use\nvarious sizes of bottles and tell the consumer\/buyers\/housewives , HERE YOU GET\nA BOTTLE of oil and the price is Rs. 450\/= each bottle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will use the “TERM BOTTLE” for their advantage to\ndupe and hoodwink the poor customer\/consumer\/buyers\/housewives and quote the\nlaw\/regulations you hope to put in place, if they are caught cheating the\nmasses for selling different volumes of oil in different bottles as there is\n“NO” standard bottle volume in Sri Lanka practiced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am attaching below<\/strong> information for your officials\nregarding more clarity regarding the point I have raised in the interest of our\npeople and the citizens of our “Maatruboomiya” for your kind\nattention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metric units of volume review\n(L and mL)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review\nthe size of liters and milliliters and how to convert between the two.  Then,\ntry some practice problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metric units of volume<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Volume measures capacity. For example, the\nvolume of a bowl is the amount of space inside the bowl or how much water, for\nexample it would take to fill the bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the metric system of measurement, the most\ncommon units of volume are milliliters and liters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP\/SLPP Stalwart, Member “Viyathmaga” – April 13th., 2021 Providing the consumers\/citizens a bottle of quality, local cocunut oil at a control price of Rs. 450\/=\u00a0through Sathosa and Cooperatives, is much welcomed by the “Nation”. But what will be the volume of Coconut Oil in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noor-nizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}