SAMURDHI PROGRAMME
- Subsidies
This is given based on the number of members in the family.
- For one person or two people Rs.1500.00
- For three people Rs.2500.00
- For more than four people Rs.3500.00
- Compulsory Savings
- Contribution fee is taken from the Samurdhi subsidy fee.
Release
- I. More than 70 years of age.
- II. Having a particular disease or have to spend money on such a disease. (cancer, kidney and heart diseases, other surgeries)
- III. A child doing higher studies.
- IV. Providing necessary grants for livelihood projects.
- Housing Lottery Programme
- Each Divisional Secretariat gets a winning chance monthly
- Value of Rs.200000.00
- Constructing a house, renovations, buying a land to construct a house or initiating a livelihood are carried out by this.
- Samurdhi Social Security Programme
Instances where benefits are given
- I. Pay Rs.7500.00 each for three child births in a beneficiary family.
- II. Rs.7500.00 each for two marriages in a family.
- III. Rs.1500.00 each for a death in a beneficiary family. (For any number of deaths)
- IV. For hospitalization in a beneficiary family maximum amount of Rs.7500.00 is paid as Rs.250.00 per day for maximum number of 30 days per year.
- V. For a twin birth Rs.5000.00 each until the child completes one tear (12 months)
- VI. For a three-child birth or more Rs.10000.00 per month for 12 months.
- VII. ‘Sipdora’ scholarship
Each child who follows Advanced Level in any beneficiary family is given Rsw.1500.00 per year for the two years they follow Advanced Level.
- Samurdhi livelihood
- Treasury grant 60% and beneficiary contribution. Maximum of treasury is Rs.4500.00 (Differs accordingly)
- Encouraging the beneficiary through group projects and individual based on the age.
- Equipment, animal husbandry, crops are given as vocational training material.
- Model villages, storage facilities, exporting villages, exporting crops, fruit villages, and tourism promoting programmes are carried out.
- Samurdhi bank and circular loans programmes, five lacks for 12% interest.
- Samurdhi Marketing Programmes.
- Carried out as 50% of treasury grant and 50% of beneficiary.
- Marketing stalls, promotions, entrepreneur associations, mobile stalls, equipment, marketing centers, are carried out under this.
- Establishing regional entrepreneur association and developing them.
- Circular Loans are provided. Interest is 12% and the maximum amount given is five lacks.
- Entrepreneur development
- Marketing promotions
- Samurdhi Social Development Programme
- Religious programmes, International Day programmes
- Counseling programmes, library promotion programmes
- ‘Sathuta Pawl’
- Establishing children societies
- Children society competitions from regional level to the national level
- ‘Haritha Uyana’
- ‘Diriya Piyasa’ – Rs.200000.00
- Special housing programme Rs.200000.00
- ‘Diriya Piyasa’ and for few members selected according to the particular housing criteria
- Community based Associations
- Establishing community based associations regional level. Apart from all the Samurdhi beneficiaries, low income households and Samurdhi Development officers, others can be members.
- To take Samurdhi benefits those who are expecting the benefits should take the membership.
- Regional community takes the leadership.
- Giving away Samurdhi subsidies, sports equipment, Samurdhi loans, projects based on the ‘Flag Fund’, are carried out under this.
- These associations are carried out from the regional level, then divisional level upto national level.
- Grants are given for the Samurdhi low income household children and those who have national level achievements to buy sports equipment and sportswear.
- All programmes are carried out regionally.
- Samurdhi Flag Pogramme carried out on par with the International Day against Drug Abuse
- Held on May 31st annually.
- Special programmes based on creativity and creations are sold by going from house to house
- 90% of the income is spent for the beneficiaries
- Constructing houses, renovations, and constructing toilets
- Public hospitality programmes, distributing stationary, training programmes are held under this.
- Banks
- Debt – livelihood
Self employment
Houses
Disaster consumer, ‘Dana Abhimani’, cultivation, entrepreneur development
- Interest – ‘Dana Abhimani’ 7%
Houses 14%
Livelihood 12%
‘Dana Saviya’ 6%
All the other debts 12%
From minimum Rs.50000.00 to maximum Rs.10 lacks
















