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World Record......

Mahinda Chinthana has kept a world record in having the largest cabinet.
The below is a comparison between the cabinets of some countries and that of Sri Lanka.

Canada - 31 ministers for 37 million people
India - 20 ministers for 1000 million people
Russia - 25 ministers for 150 million people
Malaysia - 23 ministers for 25 million people
Bangladesh - 22 ministers for 150 million people
America - 15 ministers for 274 million people
Pakistan - 13 ministers for 130 million people
Sri Lanka - 108 ministers for 19 million people

Monthly salary of a cabinet minister ? Rs. 65,000
Monthly salary of a non cabinet minister ? Rs.63,500
The incentive for participating for a parliamentary session ? Rs.500
The incentive for participating for a select committee? Rs.200
Monthly fuel incentive for a cabinet and a non cabinet minister ? Rs. 75,000
Monthly fuel incentive deputy minister - Rs.50,000
Monthly incentive for the personal telephone ? Rs.20,000
Monthly mobile incentive ? Rs. 10,000
The facility is provided to take an unlimited amount of IDD and local calls from the official telephone for a month.

Every minister has a right to employ 4 secretaries as media, personal,
coordinating, and public relations. Vehicles, fuel incentives, telephone
incentives and limited entertainment incentives are provided for all of
them from the ministry.

For the 18 cabinet and non cabinet ministers, the monthly expense for fuel
From the government is Rs:1,350,000. Also for the 10 new deputy ministers,
Rs:500,000 should be separated. The total monthly fuel expense for them is
Rs:1,850,000.

Oh.... what a blessed Nation.....

கவிதை..!

எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலில் வந்த ஒரு ஆங்கிலக் கவிதையை தருகின்றேன்

This poem was nominated poem of 2005 for the best
poem, written by an
African kid.........amazing thought!!!


When I born, I'm Black,
When I grow up, I'm Black,
When I go in Sun, I'm Black,
When I scared, I' m Black,
When I sick, I'm Black
And when I die, I'm still black.

And you White fellow,
When you born, you are Pink
When you grow up, you are White,
When you go in Sun, you are Red,
When you cold, you are Blue
When you scared, you are Yellow
When you sick, you are Green
And when you die, you are Gray
And you calling me colored?