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The purpose of the loan scheme was to encourage the local production, regional development and to boost the revenue streams of the small and medium businesses in Sri Lanka, especially with the aim of withstanding foreign competitors and to elevate import substitution strategies in order to expand the Gross Domestic Product and economic growth ...
Shreen Abdul Saroor (born 1969) is a Sri Lankan peace and women's rights activist. [1] In 1990 as part of the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka, she was forcibly removed from her home in Mannar by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and placed in a refugee camp.
Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture , although woman have been allowed to vote in elections since 1931 . [ 8 ]
Under the Annapurna scheme launched in 2003, in collaboration with the central and state governments, a total of 1,60,000 children are being supplied with clean and nutritious midday meals every afternoon from kitchen centers in Bengaluru, Hubli, Kalaburagi and Jodhpur of Rajasthan. Due to this scheme, attendance in schools has increased and ...
Sri Lanka portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Sri Lankan activists . It includes activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In March 2019, she was named as one of the most influential women, and among women change-makers in Sri Lanka, by the Parliament of Sri Lanka coinciding with International Women's Day. [21] [22] [23] In August 2019, she was one of the 66 recipients to receive national honors for 2019 from the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. [24] [25]
To implement the project plan in the balance areas proposed by the Master plan and also Gazetted areas, the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka was established in 1979 by an Act of Parliament with a mandate. [5] [6] By the end of 1995, all the headworks of the AMP had been completed and were functioning.
The NSAP includes three components: National Old Age Pension Scheme (NOAPS), National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS), and National Maternity Benefit Scheme (NMBS). 2000: Annapurna Yojana is introduced to provide eligible beneficiaries, who were not covered under NOAPS, 10 kg of free rice.