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Cigarette price hike is the solution to teacher-principal salary issues: SJB MP

07 Oct 2021

Given then ongoing teacher-principal salary anomaly issues in the country, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Buddhika Pathirana proposed for the increase in prices of cigarettes, so that the extra revenue generation may be used to solve the teacher-principal salary issue. He made such statements in Parliament yesterday (06). "The price of cigarettes has not been hiked since 2019. If the price is increased by Rs 20, the treasury would collect an extra revenue of Rs 50 bn annually. In that case, Rs 100 bn would have been collected during the year 2020 and 2021. It is said that only Rs. 55 bn is required annually to do away with the teacher-principal salary anomalies. The Government has only found Rs. 5 bn. All these problems would be resolved by increasing the price of a cigarette by just Rs. 20," stated Pathirana He went on to say that the price in hike in cigarettes will not be a cause for concern amongst the people as over 55 people die of tobacco use daily, with over 20,000 lives lost annually.

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