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Rs 100,000 each to be paid to families of missing persons
The Cabinet of Ministers had approved a proposal to grant Rs. 100,000 to each family with a missing member during the 30-year conflict between government forces and the separatists which ended in May 2009 with the military defeat of the LTTE on the banks of the Nanthikadal lagoon in Mullaitivu.
Cabinet Spokesman, Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said that the proposal, submitted by the Justice Ministry, was aimed at providing financial support to the war-affected families.
The money will be given to the closest relative of the missing person, who possesses an authorised certificate of the missing person issued by the Registrar General’s Department. (RK)
