Sri Lanka, March 21 -- Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said at a conference held in Colombo yesterday that he intends to enter the Employees' Provident Fund to the Sharemarket in the near future.

He said that when they took over the economy in 2015 it was not in a good state.

He said they realized that priority had to be given to create financial stability in the country. It was a very difficult period. From then onwards he said steps were taken to bring about financial stability and now those steps have proved satisfactory.

He also said the next step was to maintain a good balance for the first time in the mobile account in 2019. It is being done after 60 - 70 years.

Similarly the Central Bank will reduce interest rates in the ma...