{"id":105816,"date":"2020-08-24T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105816"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:48:49","slug":"turn-the-samurdhi-subsidy-into-a-program-that-empowers-low-income-earners-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/24\/turn-the-samurdhi-subsidy-into-a-program-that-empowers-low-income-earners-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn the Samurdhi subsidy into a program that empowers low income earners &#8211; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has instructed to make the Samurdhi subsidy a program that empowers the low income people without allowing it to become a burden to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was stated at a discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat today on the future plans of the Ministry of Samurdhi, Household\u00a0Economy,\u00a0Micro Finance,\u00a0Self Employment,\u00a0Business Development\u00a0and Underutilized\u00a0State Resources Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President also pointed out that Rs. 50,000 million is spent annually for Samurdhi benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was also present at the discussion, where he said that microfinance which has become a problem,\u00a0 should be regulated by an Act of the Debt Regulatory Authority or some other act. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has instructed to make the Samurdhi subsidy a program that empowers the low income people without allowing it to become a burden to the country. This was stated at a discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat today on the future plans of the Ministry of Samurdhi, Household\u00a0Economy,\u00a0Micro Finance,\u00a0Self Employment,\u00a0Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}