Mahinda Chintana promises in next budget
* Thirty percent of discount on electricity bill consumed by
low-income group families and provision of five litres of kerosene free
to householders who don’t have electricity.
* All qualified poor families to obtain Samurdhi assistance and the
families receiving below Rs 1,000 to receive upto Rs 1,000 as Samurdhi
assistance.
* An additional grant of Rs 1,500 to each Samurdhi family which has
children below three years.
* Establishing of a Pension Fund among private and Government
employees who don’t have pension rights.
* Granting a pension to persons over 65 years of age.
* A grant of Rs. 400,000 to each disabled child between 12-22 years
will be provided to build up his/her own talents.
* A special bonus grant to the permanent deposits of senior citizens.
The payment for destitute (Asarana Sarana) to be increased to Rs 1,000.
* The pension of those retired Government servants before 2006 will
be brought on par with the 2006 scheme.
* A program to provide 600,000 new houses targetting those displaced
persons from the North and East, Government servants, university
community, migrant workers, slum dwellers in Colombo city, poor people
in rural areas, fisher folk, estate workers, etc.
* A minimum grant of Rs 2,500 as a salary increase in addition to the
CoL allowance increase of Rs 750 for 2010 to Government servants.
* Distribution of 25,000 blocks of lands containing 10 perches each
to enable landless government/corporation employees to construct a
house. See also page 7 |
