Media reported that customers are waiting in long queues to buy a packet of milk powder in front of a local milk powder outlet in a ground floor building of a government institution in Nuwara Eliya.

Only the limited quantity of milk powder supplied to the milk powder outlet by the milk powder factory in Ambewela is sold to consumers.

The milk powder factory issues about 400 packets of milk powder three days a week through the outlet.

A large number of people were waiting in queues infront of theoutlet even before the outleopeninged.

There have several instances where some customers waiting in queues have not even been able to buy at least a one packet of milk powder.