Rs. 2,000 allowance for people who lost livelihoods due to quarantine curfew

Rs. 2,000 allowance for people who lost livelihoods due to quarantine curfew

August 21, 2021   10:57 am

The government has decided to provide an allowance of Rs. 2,000 for people whose livelihoods are affected by the ten-day quarantine curfew.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Finance has directed the District Secretaries to prepare a list of names of the beneficiaries.

The allowance is expected to be disbursed to the beneficiaries starting from next week.

An island-wide quarantine curfew was imposed from 10.00 pm yesterday (August 20) until August 30 (Monday) in a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19 and to ramp up the national inoculation drive.

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