Samurdhi: A people's movement for self-reliance

In order to provide a lasting solution to the problem of poverty, People's Alliance Government that came to power in 1994, made a concerted effort to alleviate poverty by introducing the Samurdhi movement and establishing a separate Ministry called Samurdhi.

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Mahatma Gandhi: embodiment of simple living and high thinking

A person who is an embodiment of truth. A person whose life is seen as a beacon light to entire mankind. That was why Mahatma Gandhi, who was once called the 'Half naked Fakeer' by the then Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, came to be respected and revered equally in East and West.

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