Sri Lanka, Oct. 4 -- President presents Sannas Pathra to Asgiri Chapter Anunayake Maha Sangha has been entrusted with responsibility in healing society President Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasised that while the Government has undertaken the task of rebuilding the nation's collapsed economy, it has also assumed the responsibility of restoring a society that has deteriorated on many fronts.

The President stressed that the decisive steps taken by the Government to end the dark rule that dragged society into ruin through the drug trade and the power of arms will not, under any circumstances, be reversed.

"The devastating consequences of that dark regime are evident from recent events. Through drugs, illicit weapons, unlawful assets, amass...