Cabinet grants approval for ‘Development Task Assistants Service’

January 9, 2020 04:48 pm

The Cabinet of Ministers has granted its approval for a proposal to establish a ‘multi-purpose development task force’.

Reportedly, this would enable the provision of employment opportunities for 100,000 youths with minimum educational qualifications in low-income families.

A Cabinet memorandum was submitted by the Minister of Mahaveli, Agriculture, Irrigation and Rural Development with this regard.

Accordingly, the establishment of a service named ‘Development Task Assistants Service’ and recruiting 100,000 individuals who have passed grade eight in a government school for the service has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.

The aforementioned proposal was forwarded by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

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