Performance Report – 2010 - Ministry of Finance and Planning

A monthly allowance of Rs. 3,000 is beingprovided to the each disabled family.Around 2305 disabled families werebenefited from this programme whichcosts Rs. 82 million to the government in2010 and it is expected to increase thenumber of beneficiaries to 8911 in 2011.In addition, another Rs. 359 million wasspent on the disabled persons through selfemployment, Housing, Community basedrehabilitation and provision of medicalassistance programmes in 2010Government has spent Rs. 102 million in2010 for rehabilitation of access road tothe IDP villages and projects wereimplemented through the respectivedistrict authorities in the NorthernProvince. As water supply and sanitationfacilities are of the important needs for theresettled families, Rs. 30 million wasprovided in 2010 for resettled villages inthis regard. School education of the IDPchildren was also one of the sectors thathad been affected during the last 2decades. Since most of the schoolinfrastructure facilities were devastated,government spent Rs 25.33 million in2010 to develop the education facilities forIDPs.In addition, livelihood projects to IDPSincluded vocational training centers forwomen in sewing. A Vocational trainingcenter for males in driving and trainingprogramme in ICT for youth wereundertaken for IDPs and government spentRs. 2.6 million on these programmes. Inaddition the Government has spent Rs.13.5 million on a community developmentprogramme and Rs. 28 million wasprovided for religious developmentactivities of the resettled families in theNorthern Province.There are newly emerging challenges;Since Sri Lanka is one of the fastest agingcountries in South Asia, it is necessary toformulate a better policy to care for theelderly people. Although the Governmentof Sri Lanka implements several welfare192programmes through the line agencies,there is no proper mechanism forevaluation and monitoring of the outcomeof the programmes. Therefore it isrevealed that some ineligible peoplebenefit through the programmes and havemisused the assistance.Since independence Sri Lankans haveenjoyed a large number of welfareprogrammes and they are growing on asubsidiary mentality. Therefore, it isdifficult to move the people away fromwelfare programmes.Poverty level in the country declined from15.2 % reported in 2006/07 to 8.9 % in2010.Table 51 Poverty Head count Ratio bysectorSector Poverty Level2006/07 2009/10Urban 6.7 5.3Rural 15.7 9.4Estate 32 11.4Government was able to resettled 24,873families in 2010 that were affected due tothe conflict. And also the numbers ofinternally displaced persons in welfarecentre have fallen from 76,700 in 2009 to31,995 in 2010.Table 52 Resettlement2009 2010No of Welfare centres 8 6VauniyaJaffna 2 1IDPs in Welfare 76,700 31,995Centres ( No)Resettled Families ( No) 44,071 24,873Sri Lanka has achieved many of thesegoals despite having been confronted withthree decades of the violent terroristmovement and the tsunami disaster inDecember 2004. In recognition of theseaccomplishments, Sri Lanka needs to reset