Not all of them however beg for a living, said Jegarasasingham adding that most of the street’s inhabitants were running odd jobs in the busy commercial districts of Colombo or in the upper and middle class city homes.
In the transitional homes, individuals who are able and willing to work, will receive vocational training and seed capital to start their own ventures.
Jegarasasingham said the Ministry would work with the Colombo Municipal Council, the Western Provincial Council and local and international non-governmental organizations,
The Ministry will also help the inhabitants to eventually find their own accommodation or to be repatriated with their families or villages they came from.
The Ministry’s programme is based on an early January study that took a headcount