Sri Lankan Government to offer Rs.7,500 allowance to worst-hit citizens from World Bank, Asian Development Bank fund
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In a bid to support the people from the worsening economic crisis that has made it challenging to access food, fuel and gas, the Sri Lankan government yesterday (July 01) said it is gearing up to provide a fresh round of assistance to those severely impacted.
From this month onwards (July), the government plans to roll out an allowance of Rs.7500 to those hit by the crisis, said Plantations Minister Ramesh Pathirana.
The allowance will be extended from the funds received from the international donor agencies. Part of the allowance will be offered from the US $ 200 million from the World Bank (WB), while part will be from the US $ 200 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Samurdhi beneficiaries, senior citizens and medical-related persons are those among who are eligible for the allowance.
However, the minister did not share how the handout will be offered.
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Oh! Sri Lankens wake up and get your self together. Don’t depend on hand outs. If the rest of the world can do it why can’t you? Stop cramming the books and passing exams but learn practical things. You only learn things when you do things. There is a vast difference in studying and learning.
Ranjith,
Don’t worry.
This money goes to buy votes at the next elections.
The leaders who give this money should be charged for Bribery.
When the next elections are held, you can see the idiots crowing from the rooftops that they ‘looked after’ suffering people (while stealing national wealth).
Roxie. Every body including the foreign governments who give this financial aid know that this want reach the poor. As you said this is a bribe they give to this type of supper cruppered countries so that they can control these countries. One example they can send untested medicine to be tested on the poor people, other wise it would have cost them a fortune to test on animals. You want get some thing for nothing in this world.
What do you think of the great democracy forced upon the 3rd world and developing countries? It is cheaper than keeping a foreign army to control another country. Much safer and obscenely cheaper. Get their own to do the dirty jobs and your bidding. Throw away a bit of bribe in the disguise of aid to get the party willing to obey the order into power or keep in power. Otherwise, until a country has a strong economy to maintain and spend on what is it essential to keep the corruption away and to stop bending the law, the great democracy is a stick like human rights being used to control poorer countries at their will buy richer nations at their will.
So Indra Akke,
What do you reckon we should do?
Go back to stone age and permanently engage the Raja Pavula as leaders to roam the Countryside in their gold embroidered amude’s, driving in bullet-proof BMW’s, ruling with a sledge hammer with Ranil Rajapaksa and Pissu Sira and AKD and Modadasa in tow, while buying islands in the Maldives with luxury resorts while the masses are dying of hunger?