Practically 2 Mn residents receiving Aswesuma allowance:
State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe has introduced that after reviewing appeals and objections, an extra 182,140 households have certified to obtain advantages beneath the Aswesuma welfare profit programme. He acknowledged that each one funds, together with arrears associated to those households, will probably be settled by April 18.
Consequently, 1,854,000 people are presently receiving advantages. The Authorities has allotted Rs. 58.5 billion for this objective.
Nonetheless, roughly 200,000 households who’ve met all of the {qualifications} to obtain the advantages are but to open their financial institution accounts and replace the required info. Regardless of efforts by regional secretariats and the media to tell these households, there was no response from them thus far.
The Minister additionally talked about that the survey associated to Aswesuma is scheduled to start in Might. The Authorities goals to incorporate 2.4 million households within the Aswesuma welfare profit programme, with Rs. 205 billion allotted for this within the present 12 months’s Price range.
