Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Fisheries has provided Rs. 216.5 million to the relevant District Secretariats to pay as compensation to 12,111 fishing vessel owners and fishermen in the Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara districts who lost their livelihoods due to the burning of the X-Press Pearl containership.
Accordingly, Rs. 150 million has been paid for the fishermen in the Gampaha District, Rs. 52.67 million for the fishermen in the Colombo District and Rs. 13.83 million for the fishermen in the Kalutara District and the compensation has been credited to their bank accounts.
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