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LNP – Cabinet nod to provide a grant of Rs. 2.5 mn to family of Priyantha Kumara

The Cabinet of Ministers today approved the proposal to provide a grant of 2.5 million to the wife and children of Priyantha Kumara who was brutally killed by a mob in Sialkot, Pakistan recently.
Accordingly, the proposal made by the Minister of Labour to provide a grant of Rs. 2.5 million on a humanitarian basis by the Employees’ Welfare Fund of the Bureau of Foreign Employment for the welfare of his wife and children who were devastated from his death considering his extensive contribution to the Sri Lankan economy over a period of eleven years as a migrant worker, was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.

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