{"id":133485,"date":"2023-04-04T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133485"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:36:07","slug":"850000-more-low-income-families-to-receive-10kg-of-rice-per-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/04\/850000-more-low-income-families-to-receive-10kg-of-rice-per-month\/","title":{"rendered":"850,000 more low-income families to receive 10kg of rice per month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Cabinet of Ministers has given the nod to provide 10kg of rice per month to 850,000 more low-income families in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 16 January 2023, cabinet approval was given to provide 2 million low-income families with a rice quota of 10kg for a two-month period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d85\u0da9\u0dd4 \u0d86\u0daf\u0dcf\u0dba\u0db8\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dcf\u0db7\u0dd3 \u0db4\u0dc0\u0dd4\u0dbd\u0dca \u0dc3\u0db3\u0dc4\u0dcf \u0dbb\u0da2\u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc3\u0dc4\u0db1\u0dba\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWpKHKzpoz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the government has identified that there are 850,000 more low-income families on the waiting list and that they should also be included in the proposed program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereby, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposal presented by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to include the newly-identified 850,000 low-income families in the said program, thus providing a total of 2.85 million families with 10kg of rice per month for two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the president has proposed to increase the budgetary allocation made for this program from RS. 10 billion to Rs. 13 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has given the nod to provide 10kg of rice per month to 850,000 more low-income families in the country. On 16 January 2023, cabinet approval was given to provide 2 million low-income families with a rice quota of 10kg for a two-month period. However, the government has identified that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133485","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=133485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}