COLOMBO, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lanka cabinet approved to implement a national social protection policy, the government's information department said on Tuesday.
The department said President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the minister of finance, economic stabilization and national policies, submitted the proposal.
It said that unrelated programs, schemes of proposals, institutions and outputs in the present social protection policy have less efficiency.
The national policy ministry has identified the necessity to have a new policy for the country and it has been formulated to provide strategical guidance to develop a properly co-ordinated and coherent social protection policy with the participation of all relevant parties, the department said. ■