Basil comes down to ‘2.7’

TUESDAY, 02 SEPTEMBER 2014

The number of recipient families of the loan scheme, suddenly put forward by Minister Basil Rajapaksa while President Mahinda Rajapaksa was away in the USA, has been brought down to 2.7 million suddenly. ‘Dinamina’ had revealed that 5 million families would benefit from the loan scheme.

JVP in many instances including TV programmes, pointed out that government’s false development could be adjudged from the number of families who had no ability to get a small amount of Rs.5000 to Rs.50,000 as a loan without such a scheme.  They asked whether it was the ‘miracle’ the government was boasting about.

The government, that got upset over this, has taken steps to change the statistics.  An article in today’s (2nd) ‘Dinamina’ states 2.7 million families would be benefited from the Divi Neguma Sahana Arana’  programme.