The programme to provide 100,000 employment opportunities aimed at eradicating poverty is scheduled to commence today (2).
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, stated the President’s Media Division (PMD).
As per the PMD, job recipients are selected on the basis of the following criteria:
- Unskilled workers who have no formal education or with education lower than a GCE Ordinary Level examination qualification
- Must not be less than 18 years of age and not more than 40 years of age on the closing date of applications
- Unemployed member of a family eligible to receive Samurdhi benefits but does not receive it, or a member of a family receiving Samurdhi benefits but is unemployed
- An unemployed member of a family with elderly, sick parents or differently abled members of family