Sri Lanka, April 21 -- President Ranil Wickremesinghe was in Nuwara Eliya on the eve of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. He has been visiting Nuwara Eliya with First Lady Prof. Maithree Wickremesinghe for a long time.

When the President stayed at the President's House, Nuwara Eliya, he first looked into whether the children of the Child Development Centres were given New Year gift parcels under the program initiated by him.

On April 13 afternoon, the President called on Chief of Staff Sagala Ratnayaka and Chief of Defence Staff General Shavendra Silva to find out if the children in all the Child Development Centres in the country had received the gifts as scheduled.

On the morning of April 14, when the President came to witness the New ...