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Providing jobs for poor begins on September 2
The Programme of providing 100,000 employment opportunities aimed at eradicating poverty will commence from September 02 onwards, Presidential Secretariat said.
The objective of the Programme is to empower those who live in absolute poverty with no formal education and skills through the Multi-Purpose Development Task Force established by the government.
Job recipients are selected on the basis of the criteria of being unskilled workers who have no formal education or with education lower G.C.E. Ordinary Level examination and must be not less than 18 years of age and not more than 40 years of age on the closing date for applications.
Another criteria for the inclusion of this programme is to be an unemployed member of a family eligible to receive Samurdhi benefits but does not receive it, or being a member of a family receiving Samurdhi benefits but unemployed.
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Colombo Fort Magistrate interdicted
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MP on open warrant turns up at school event
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SC refuses interim order on Judges appointments
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