Sri Lanka introduces Loan scheme for disabled soldiers
Sri Lanka's new government has introduced a special loan scheme of up to Rs.500,000 for disabled war veterans through State Banks.
Viru Daru special loan scheme for disabled war veterans from interim was introduced under the interim budget 2015 presented in Parliament on January 29.
The Eelam War in Sri Lanka has produced a large number of veterans with complex physical and psychological traumas over the last three decades.
Present statistics show that there are approximately 300 plus soldiers who became totally disable with multiple injuries. Those injuries range from spinal cord, brain damage and many other disabilities such as amputations, impaired hearing, vision, speech defects, paralysis and so on.
