A garment factory to train and employ over 400 youths in Sri Lanka’s Puttalam district was inaugurated on January 1 in Karamba in Puttalam under a project under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s ‘Gama Samaga Wedapola’ (workplace within the village) initiative. It was set up by the Presidential Task Force on Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication.
The task force was set up in April last year to revive the economy and eradicate poverty while paying special attention to the challenges posed and opportunities that emerged in Sri Lanka in the wake of COVID–19 outbreak.A garment factory to train and employ over 400 youths in Sri Lanka's Puttalam district was inaugurated on January 1 in Karamba in Puttalam under a project under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's 'Gama Samaga Wedapola' (workplace within the village) initiative. It was set up by the Presidential Task Force on Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication.#
There is scope for expansion of the factory to accommodate a maximum of 1,000 youths from the district, according to a report in a Sri Lankan newspaper.
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