The Hon. T.K. Jayasundara
Hon. T.K. Jayasundara asked the Prime Minister for details on the President’s Fund amid public criticism and parliamentary and media debate over its benefit disbursement. He sought information on the Fund’s sectors, funding sources, annual beneficiaries and expenditure since 2015, the current disbursement procedure, and whether access to applications and benefits would be simplified through Divisional Secretariats.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, my question to the Hon. Prime Minister is as follows:
¶ 02 1. The public has severely criticized the disbursement of benefits from the President’s Fund for some time, and there have been various debates in the media and in this august Assembly. i. What are the sectors covered by the President’s Fund? ii. What are its sources of funding? iii. From 2015, how many beneficiaries have received assistance annually, and what sums were expended? iv. What is the current procedure for disbursing benefits? v. Will the Government simplify the application and benefit process by enabling access at Divisional Secretariat level; if so, how will it be implemented?
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Wednesday, 5 February 2025 ·No. 1739175806099814 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
- Page · column
- not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
- Permalink
/lk/speeches/26728
Cite as: The Hon. T.K. Jayasundara. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 February 2025. No. 1739175806099814. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/26728