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Deadline of census to identify welfare beneficiaries extende
The Welfare Benefit Board has decided to extend the census completion date to April 10, after considering the requests of District Secretaries and Grama Niladhari Offices.
Today was intended to be the last date for the census to verify the details of the applicants of the 2022 programme to identify eligible individuals and families to receive the payment of welfare benefits under the theme “Leave no one behind”.
The next step in this process is to allow the verification of data by the Selection Committee and it is mandatory that all the remaining household units be censused before 10th of April 2023.
Under the second phase of the “Aththama kiyamu, aththama ayata prathilaba demu” campaign, the census of 27, 58424 applicants’ information has been completed as of today.
