Sri Lanka, March 22 -- Sri Lanka will achieve a 3.6% economic growth rate in 2021 and thereafter will maintain a 6.6% growth from 2022, said State Minister of Money & Capital Market and State Enterprise Reforms, Ajith Nivard Cabraal.

Speaking to 'Daily News Business' last Thursday prior to his departure to Bangladesh he said that Sri Lanka will achieve this target despite an economic growth rate contraction in 2020 and also successfully battling the COVID-19 Pandemic.

He said that the government offered a host of unbudgeted handouts to the public plus a huge sum spent for vaccination and COVID-19 controls. Despite all these odds they kept the economy going similar to the LTTE terror period where the country achieved an 8.8% growth. Due ...