Lifetime salaries and benefits for disabled soldiers on President’s instructions

President Maithripala Sirisena has advised authorities to provide salaries and benefits for lifetime to disabled soldiers and the families of deceased soldiers.

The President has instructed to implement a program to extend the salaries and benefits that are currently provided only until age 55 for lifetime for the soldiers who were disabled during operations, terrorist activities or when implementing law and order and for the families of the soldiers deceased while on duty.

Accordingly, the necessary steps will be taken within the next two months, the President’s Media Division said.

This was stated at a meeting held at the Presidential Secretariat on Friday to inform about the steps taken by the Ministry of Defence to resolve this long-standing request of disabled war veterans.

Representatives of the national forum of disabled soldiers and war heroes and wives and widows of war heroes representing the district and national organisations have been called for the meeting.

Disabled soldiers have forwarded eight requests to the President and steps have been taken under the guidance of the President to find solutions to all these problems.

The President was commended for his constant intervention to solve the problems of war heroes by identifying their issues.