To come soon! Arjun's media network which will shudder the media world!
Much of the activities in connection with launching the new media network under the ownership of millionaire businessman Arjun Aloysius of Perpetual Treasuries Company which earned extensive profits have already been completed. As such a media institution with a fresh outlook with the facility of providing a monthly salary scale of Rs. one lakh upto a million, so far not seen in Sri
Lanka would thus be established. The political objective of this exercise is to raise the image of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasingha, it was reported.Employees of various publications had been recruited during the past period under the high-paying scheme and both Editors of Mawbima Today and Sunday are among them. This is for the main newspaper to be launched by the said media network. According to this operations 21 employees attached to the page-maker's section and other sections of the editorial board of Mawbima newspaper have relinquished their posts, it is understood.
The office in Bambalapitiya area where it has been established has become a location where skilled persons of numerous media institutions have been bought over and installed and in time to come preparations are underway to establish this office at a location in a new building in Colpetty. There is information to say that television, radio, newspapers and websites are included in this new media. Rumours are circulating that more than in obtaining a new television license it would be a feasible idea to buy an already existing one and there is a speculation to buy over Swarnawahini, in this context.