The Hon. Jeevan Thondaman
Jeevan Thondaman responded to remarks on the plantation community and welcomed the concern expressed. He clarified that although a Cabinet paper was submitted to include plantation people in the Aswasuma welfare scheme, current implementation benefits only children of estate employees, excluding children of estate residents working in the informal sector. He called for those children also to be covered.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, the Hon. Member spoke, with much feeling, about the plantation community. I welcome that. But I must correct one point: Even though we brought a Cabinet paper to include plantation people in Aswasuma, the way it is presently implemented benefits only the children of those employed on estates. There are also many living on estates working in the informal sector. Their children too should be covered.
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Cite as: The Hon. Jeevan Thondaman. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 18 December 2024. No. 1735286612086554. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12194