Cabinet nod for Wheat Flour relief for estate families

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka's Cabinet of Minister granted approval on Monday (14) to provide 15 kg of wheat flour per month at a concessionary rate to 115,867 beneficiary families working in the estate sector.

According to the Department of Government Information approval was granted to the Finance Minister's proposal ‘Implementation of proposals to minimize economic constraints confronted by the public', on the 18th of January 2022.

A committee led by the Trade Minister had thereafter issued a recommendation considering the resolution for wheat flour relief for estate worker families, and thus the recommendations were approved.