{"id":141029,"date":"2024-03-19T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T00:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=141029"},"modified":"2024-03-19T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T00:09:44","slug":"govt-to-provide-rice-to-nearly-3-million-low-income-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/03\/19\/govt-to-provide-rice-to-nearly-3-million-low-income-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. to provide rice to nearly 3 million low-income families"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Cabinet of Ministers has given its approval to provide 10kg of rice per month for each low-income family for a period of two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the proposal furnished by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, as many as 2.74 million low-income families will benefit from this relief program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These low-income families will be identified through District Secretaries\/Government Agents by involving small- and medium-scale mill owners, the government said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half of 2023, the government took measures to provide 10kg of Nadu rice per family for a period of two months covering 2.74 million families in the 25 districts, including Samurdhi beneficiaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to help maintain the nutritional level of the identified low-income earners, the government decided that it is only appropriate to resume the program this year as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Cabinet of Ministers has given its approval to provide 10kg of rice per month for each low-income family for a period of two months. As per the proposal furnished by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, as many as 2.74 million low-income families will benefit from this relief program. These low-income families will be identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141029","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=141029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}