Food, other facilities for Jaffna's displaced

COLOMBO: The Ministry of Nation Building and Development, on President Mahinda Rajapaksa's instructions has taken steps to provide immediate food and other facilities to civilians, displaced in the Jaffna district on account of the clashes in the area.

Steps have been taken to supply food items, medicine and sanitary goods worth Rs. 25 million to all displaced families in Jaffna including the fishing community through the Jaffna Government Agent, said Nation Building and Development Ministry Secretary M.S. Jayasinghe.

The food items include rice, flour, curry stuff, dhal, green gram, coconut oil, tea leaves, sugar, B onions, common gram, infant milk food and full cream milk powder.

This is in addition to the food distribution programme undertaken by the World Food Program for which arrangements have been made by Social Services and Social Welfare Minister Douglas Devananda.