Sri Lanka, March 26 -- The cabinet met today with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the chair has given the green light to offer a range of relief measures aimed in particular at Samurdhi beneficiary and low income families, self-employed and those live on daily wages, cabinet spokesman, Higher Education, Information, Communication Technology and New Inventions Minister Bandula Gunawardana said.
"The relief package is meant to ease the burden created by the COVID 19 endemic, especially on tourism, apparel and garment industry, plantation sector, fisheries and industrial sector, non executive level employees of the public and state sector, whereas most of the employees are living on a monthly paid jobs, self-employment or daily paid jobs," Mi...